A guy in my flight apparently plays the bagpipes.

He has a little electric bagpipe he plugs his headphones into and only he can hear.

He has been silently (to everyone but himself) ripping his bagpipe for 5 straight hours.

electronic bagpipe

Photo: Blair Bagpipes

But it turns out another instrument also has a modern counterpart.

The user first spotted this gadget when his seatmate took it out on a flight.

A guy in my flight apparently plays the bagpipes, they write.

He has a little electric bagpipe he plugs his headphones into and only he can hear.

He has been silently (to everyone but himself) ripping his bagpipe for five straight hours.

I have no choice but to respect this.

For those in the bagpipe world, these devices are known as digital chanters or practice chanters.

A video posted to Twitter by user @Vamos_DCU has been making waves online.

It introduced thousands of people to a very unique inventionthe electronic bagpipe.

As such, a digital chanter allows the performer to practice without disturbing neighbors.