The Uilleann pipes are the type of bagpipes native to Ireland. Unlike the Highland Bagpipes native to Scotland, the Uilleann pipes are played sitting down and are nowhere near as loud. They are meant for indoor playing, and are about as loud as a fiddle. They are used most in traditional celtic music. They are much more of an intimate insturment then the Great Highland pipes.
The Uilleann pipes use the same fingering as the tin whistle, which is only one of many ways they are alike.
7. The reason old people are having more heart attacks.
Scouring the pipes (Masturbation) protects against Prostate Cancer. Men who Scour their pipes more than 5 times a week in their 20's are 33% less likely to develop the
most aggressive form of prostate cancer later in life. A 2003 study by Graham Giles at the Cancer Council of Victoria in Melbourne Australia found that the ejaculate helps to "flush" or rid the male body of carcinogens.