The problem about the Rebel Yell is that it is recorded by Southerners of the time that they had never heard it before. It has no recorded history ever being used before or since in the American South. That is why no one knows today exactly how it sounded today.

All I can say is the Celtic movement did not start until about 1707 in Great Britain and that was with a select group of Gaelic speaking peoples. It grew from there.

I love the pipes, and the culture, but the only tie I have to it is my GGG Grandfather from Ireland, who spoke Gaelic and was Roman Catholic and my GGG Grandfather from Glasgow, Scotland. They arrived from Europe in the 1850s. The bulk my ancestry arrived here in the 1600s.

David