Mexican music is not just horns and accordions…
11 July 2013
… it’s also bagpipes!
Banda de gaitas del Batallion de San Patricio at the Museo de la Intervención in May, 2008.
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Oh dear lord. I can but apologise, on the behalf of my nation, for the export of these vile instruments of torture to the fine country of Mexico. I cannot think of anything any Mexican has ever done to warrant such a cruel and unusual punishment…
I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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