It's not true that this is the _original_ music of the pipes, they had been around for several centuries before ceol mor evolved - see Roderick Cannon, The Highland Bagpipe and Its Music. In any case common sense would tell you that the most complex genre isn't the first to evolve! However it is true that it was developed on the pipes, and a sort of classical music with some similarities to the Indian raga tradition.
It's not true that this is the _original_ music of the pipes, they had been around for several centuries before ceol mor evolved - see Roderick Cannon, The Highland Bagpipe and Its Music. In any case common sense would tell you that the most complex genre isn't the first to evolve! However it is true that it was developed on the pipes, and a sort of classical music with some similarities to the Indian raga tradition.