48. False: Bagpipes had been invented in Scotland
Not even shut. Bagpipes have been performed for over a millennium all through Europe, northern Africa (particularly Egypt), Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Persian Gulf.
The primary time a bagpipe seems in Scottish literature was in 1400, lengthy after it was already a preferred instrument in different elements of the world.
In truth, bagpipes had been really banned for some time in Scotland after the rebellion of 1745 as a result of they had been thought-about an instrument of battle.
