I discovered the Great Tapestry through one of the knitting blogs that I follow and had a book detailing each of the panels for Christmas. The embroidered panels tell the history of Scotland, from rocks rising out of the ceaseless sea to the reconvening of the Scottish parliament. Along the way it takes in new towns, whaling, tenements, Dolly the sheep, paisley shawls, the King James bible, the Jacobite rising and Pytheas the Greek.
There isn't a panel that specifically addresses music or piping, but pipes make appearances in several panels, mostly in the borders rather than in the main design.
Panel 38 - Blind Harry. Pipes in one of the border motifs.
Panel 40. Flodden. The central figure is playing a rather odd, single-droned bagpipe. Text in the panel refers to the flooers of the forest, a pipe tune played at funerals, which I first knew of through the Fureys.
Panel 92. The Scots in India. A sets of pipes is one of the items in the panel's border alongside a mix of items including a steam train, a tea pot, an elephant and a tiger.
Panel 101. Highland games. You can't have games without pipes!
Panel 134. D-Day. A piper leads out other service men and women, playing Hieland Laddie. (Women feature in many of the panels...none of them playing pipes.)
Panel 135. The first Edinburgh festival. Relegated to the panel border again.
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