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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've read me for a while, you know I like music and robots. So when I discovered via The Scotsman that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have built a robot bagpiper, I wanted to ...

Celtic music is going metal. The flutes, bagpipes and other woodwind instruments used for more than 500 years to play the folk music of Ireland and Scotland have historically been made, as one might ...