Bagpipes
I love to listen to the pipes. I think it must be nearly universal although I did have one woman literally run screaming from the shop one day. She was yelling at her husband, "I can't stand that screeching" as she barreled out through the door. Fife and drums hadn't bothered her but the pipes did. Perhaps we should have pipers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq...
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