Who introduced th bagpipes to Scotland?

Answer 1

The ancestor of the bagpipe is almost certainly the various forms of double reed pipe, which may well be prehistoric. Thus, it's probable that one can not identify the inventor or even the region of origin.

Double reed pipes have been found in Ancient Egyptian tombs, and continue to exist in Egypt (cf. "The Piper of Ur" or "Lady Maket's Pipes"). A clay double pipe thought to be of Phoenician origin, and of uncertain but ancient date has been found near ancient tin mines in Cornwall. The Mijwiz is found in Egypt (where they are sometimes played by the Nawar, who are travellers like the European Rom or the Irish Tinkers), and the Jawza (also sometimes called mijwiz) in Iraq. The names come most likely from the Semitic root jwz which conveys the sense of two things (ie. pipes) joined together. The Greek aulos was also played in pairs, and like the mijwiz, the player inflated the cheeks with air and used a circular breathing technique, which is effectively the same as a bagpipe.

Ancient forms of bagpipe are known in Northern Africa (Tunisia and Kabyl-dialect speaking regions especially), Turkey (the tulum) and single reed rustic Bagpipes (as well as more sophisticated single reed pipes) are played as far East as the Ukraine.

Archaic, rather than ancient pipes are found throughout Western Europe, with Ireland perhaps having developed the most complicated instrument, possessing polyphonic regulators, three drones and a chromatic scale of two octaves. Pipes of Poland, Slovakia Moldavia and Hungary tend toward a demi-chanter (producing two notes) and a six or seven hole melodic pipe.

The relative "center" of the zones wherein bagpipes are played, is likely to be Italy, and indeed in the past, that country had many types of bagpipes. At the present, the greatest variety is probably to be found in France, wherein most regions have more than one type of bagpipe.

Answer 2

Many if not most cultures around the world have had a form of bagpipes in their cultural history, as such its hard to pin down where and when the first set came from, but the earliest evidence of bagpipes is from about 1000BC in the Middle East.

Answer 3

No one knows and there is a great many theories of just where and when they were made. They suddenly appeared in the middle ages.

Answer 4

Rowdy Roddy Piper.