Amazon Daily Quiz (February 9, 2021): In which country will you come across the %u2018highland pipers%u2019?
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The options are-
-Egypt
-Brazil
-Scotland
-Japan
Answer: Scotland
Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. Mainland Scotland has about a 96-mile border with England to the southeast and has Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south.
How bagpipes arrived in Scotland is kind of an unsolvable mystery.
Though some people believe that bagpipes originated from ancient Egypt and were brought to Scotland by invading Roman Legion, some are of the belief that the instrument was brought over the waters by colonising the Scots tribes from Ireland.
Ancient Egypt appears to have claim to the instrument however before anyone else; from as early as 400 BC the %u2018pipers of Thebes%u2019 are reported to have been blowing pipes made from dog skin with chanters of bone.
Hundreds of years later, one of the most famous exponents of the pipes is said to have been the great Roman Emperor Nero, who may well have been piping rather than fiddling whilst Rome burned.
