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"I play in a pipe band, founded one at a high school. I can assure you there is no "conspiracy." but institutionalized prejudice against anything Celtic exists today.I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, just cultural prejudice."

Have you found that there are two types of people: those that love bagpipes (I hope that's what you're talking about when you say "pipe band") and those that don't? I wonder if there's a genetic component or racial memory? For myself, when I hear the pipes calling - I listen.

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Well the pipes are primordial. They stir the blood. And for thiose who are sheep they bleat and run. For those who are true and courageous, the pipes invoke a kind of nobility. I know. I have observed it for many,...many years.

The wuestion of whetehr it is racial memory is something that may or may bnot be involved.But I have played the pipes in Japan, and huge crowds gayhered. They have no racial mempry, but they have a warrior spirit couched in absolute kindness. I believe one's reaction to pipes may be a spiritual matter.