Anonymous ID: 5dbcc4 June 26, 2019, 8:28 a.m. No.6846103   🗄️.is 🔗kun

For the keks:

 

"The bagpipe is possibly the only musical instrument to have been labeled a tool of warfare.

 

In 1746, after wiping a field clear of rebellious Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, the British government collected a handful of supposed POWs and put them on trial in York. Included in the group was James Reid, a Scottish man about whom not much is known except that he played the bagpipes.

 

Reid's lawyers argued that he was innocent based on the fact that he carried no arms into battle. But the judge disagreed, ruling that “a Highland regiment never marched without a piper, and, therefore, that in the eye of the law, Reid's bagpipes were an instrument of war.”

 

https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/04/war-bagpipes-wiping-single-instrument-urban-map/1754/