We've got a piper down! I repeat, the piper is down. Actually, these days, the piper is doing just fine, but there was a time when John McLean Allan left his bagpipes - an instrument he'd played since ...

Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional ...

BAGPIPE chiefs last night launched a proud defence of the instrument in the face of claims they’re not truly Scottish. But experts say that pipes from thousands of years are nothing like the ones ...

The bagpipe occupies the strangest rung on the musical ladder, shaped like an octopus in plaid pants, sounding to some like a goose with its foot caught in an escalator and played during history’s ...

The death of a bagpipe player has revealed a disease-causing fungus lurking in unclean instruments – and musicians are not its only victims Pass notes: Bagpipe lung. Age: New, but probably old.

The Great Highland bagpipe is as central to Scottish identity as tartan and Robert Burns. Walk down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and you’ll hear that familiar wail, while pipers gather each year to empty ...