A French site dedicated to bagpipes with some film clips of Mick O’Brien and Michael O’Connell showing how the Irish pipes work: Cornemuses - La mélodie et son accompagnement “Dans cet extrait vidéo, le piper Mick O’Brien fait entendre les accords que l’on tire de ces tuyaux accompagnateurs.”
One of the cool things about French (aside from the fact that the French word for “lawyer” is exactly the same as the word for “avocado”) is that the word for “drones” (les bourdons) translates literally as “bumblebees.” Maybe that’s where the expression “hives of honeyed sound” came from…