If there is a noise worse than that made by a beginning bagpipe player,
I've not heard it.

That reminds me of Sean Connery in the movie "The longest Day" Where
he and another "bloke" were experiencing heavy artillary and shell
fire, then some regiment somes marching through the streets with a
bagpipe honking away.

Connery stuffs paper or cotton in his ears, the two look at each other
in discust while listening to the pipes oveer scoreing the artillary
blasts.

Connery says: "Aw, listen to all that racket.... "It takes a true
Irishman to play the pipes"