That's lovely for a piper to visit Dover!
He might be Scottish or Irish, going by the kilt.
It depends on the tartan, I'll have to check that out. As you all know, the Irish pipers also wear kilts.
The Scots have got many, many different tartans.
When in full gear, the Scots wear white military boots.
I've got the impression the piper might be holding a bellows under his arm. In this case he wasn't using a blowpipe. The Highlanders use only blowpipes, the Lowland Scots tend to use bellows-blown pipes, as do the English players of Northumbrian pipes.
The Irish use both kinds of bagpipes, but tend to prefer the Scottish-type blowpipe.
The bagpipe is a Celtic instrument, and the Celts even introduced it to the Balcans about 2,000 years ago, which is why the bagpipe is common in Macedonia, Bulgaria and to an extent Greece and to a smaller extent Serbia.
Of-course the French also have bagpipes, from their Celtic heritage, and among them the Bretons.
The first recorded bagpipe in English literature is a Kentish manufact, blown in Canterbury in the 14th century, as described by our Kentish author Geoffrey Chaucer:
"A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne. And therwithal he broghte us out of towne."
It's rumoured that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales inspired by the bagpipe!
