Never been satisfied with my words for describing the sounds of the pipes in CWKB.
Today I remembered a good word to use.

The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
Never been satisfied with my words for describing the sounds of the pipes in CWKB.
Today I remembered a good word to use.
Interesting. In a possibly unrelated instance, in the book School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov, the sound of a legbrace's joints squeaking is written as skirli, skirli.
That is interesting! As you say, possibly unrelated in etymology. Though Scots/English skirl might have originated as an onomatopoeia, and perhaps Sokolov's skirli did too, which is a shared origin of a kind…