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These bagpipes had mostly been hidden away in the backs of cupboards,” the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society journal ...
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The origins of bagpiping

More than 7,000 competitors descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for the World Bagpipe Championships every year. Learn the history ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Scotland’s oldest known bagpipe chanter is one of 15 objects in the National Museums Scotland which have been published in a new bilingual ...
Authors of the case report are calling the man's condition "bagpipe lung." The man's demise appears to be the first documented case of death by bagpipe, experts say.
'Bagpipe lung' announced as cause of man's death - two years later 'If he had stopped playing the bagpipes or cleaned them regularly, he may well have just gotten better' ...
Doctors say mold and fungi lurking inside bagpipes probably caused a fatal infection they called “bagpipe lung.” Above, a bagpipes player in Houston in 1999.
For almost 100 years, the ladies of the Dagenham Girl Pipers travelled from Las Vegas to Singapore performing in front of everyone from Elvis Presley to Queen Elizabeth II. But the east London ...
Cristina Pato says the gaita, a traditional bagpipe from her native region of Galicia, is defined by its "beautiful limitations." ...
In the bagpipe world, the lawnmower-like entrance of the bagpipes’ drones would mark the player as an amateur, but this song seems engineered to complement Scott’s vocals.
Wake County scores the addition of MacLellan Bagpipes, the only shop in North America to manufacture, sell and teach the Scottish national instrument.
Originally, due to a reporting error, the relationship between bagpipe and dance instructors Jamie and Jackie Cuthill was mischaracterized. They are siblings.
Scotland’s oldest known bagpipe chanter and a bible carried by an unknown soldier at Culloden have been included in a collection of great Gaelic objects. They are among 100 items which now appear, ...