When Duncan Menzies was young (a Scot might say wee) he decided he wanted to learn to play the bagpipes. He was successful — after years of incredibly trying practice. Then, in his twenties, he ...

EDINBURGH: Illustrious for its unique and potent sound, the Highland bagpipe played a significant role in Scottish culture and history, which includes accompanying troops on their D-Day landing in ...

The oldest Highland bagpipe chanter has returned to Scotland after more than 200 years in Canada. It belonged to 17th century composer Iain Dall MacKay, whose grandson emigrated to Nova Scotia with it ...

EDINBURGH — The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in northern France on D-Day ...

It was once part of the instrument played by the Blind Piper of Gairloch, a one-of-a-kind artifact dating to the golden days of Gaelic music in Scotland. But news that his Canadian descendants were ...

The whole family of pipes are all based around very simple principals of a bag, chanter and drones. All these things go together to make what we now know as the sound of the pipes. Piping, like so ...

The chanter was owned by 17th Century Am Pìobaire Dall - the blind piper. Scotland’s oldest known bagpipe chanter and a bible carried by an unknown soldier at Culloden have been included in a ...

Today, bagpipes are most closely associated with Scotland. But did you know they can be traced back to an entirely different continent? Think of bagpipes, and you probably picture a piper wearing ...

Pipe Major Chukwu Oba Kalu is trying to turn a teenage dream into a national revival of playing the bagpipes in Nigeria. The 46-year-old first saw the instrument played by a member of a police ...