Can you tell me a little bit about you and your bagpipes? Do you have them with you where you are?

I do, I do.

They're right over here, let me just stretch.

There they are, I see them.

I'm throwing them over my shoulder, so I'll blow.

The first sounds you hear, they kind of, which usually tends to do a nice,

of the drones. They form a collection of notes that don't change.

Yeah, that's quite a lovely sound.

Now, if I squeeze a little harder on my bag, pipe bag,

that is where you get the kind of real screech, the knee sound, to put it in a very academic way.

Knee.

This is very loud.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's nine o'clock in the morning where Ross is right now,

and I apologize for getting you kicked out of your apartment.

I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, I'm talking with Ross Jennings, also known as the first paper.

I started this journey in 2014, and it's cheesy, but it has been life changing in a very wonderful way.

We're going to hear how bagpipes took Ross far from Scotland, all around the world,

and how he found a connection everywhere he went, more after this.

I've known Ross Jennings, or at least sort of known of him for years.

One of the things that Atlas Obscura does is lead trips around the world.

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