Excerpt from "The Pipes at Lucknow".

"Dear to the corn-land reaper

And plaided mountaineer -

To the cottage and the castle

The piper's song is dear.

Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch

O'er mountain, glen, and glade;

But the sweetest of all music

The pipes at Lucknow played!"

- from "The Pipes at Lucknow", by John Greenleaf Whittier, an American poet from the 19th century. The Siege of Lucknow, which lasted from July 2 - November 16, 1857, took place during the Indian Mutiny in 1857-58.

I love the bagpipes.