Stalwarts leading off the St. Patrick's Day Parade, seen everywhere around Chicago, a lot of effort — and history — is behind those skirling pipes.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, April 19 (UPI) -- A Scottish historian says the Highland bagpipe and the traditions, history and legend surrounding it were 19th century inventions. While the bagpipe has ancient ...

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Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland players and their instruments with magic; warriors wielding the haunting, ...

The collection was recently purchased from a private collector in France. The 26 pieces from Scotland, England and Ireland will form part of a display that charts 250 years of bagpipe history. The ...

A few years back, when a friend asked me to play the bagpipes in a concert marking the 15th anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I was thrilled. In my experience, most ...

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 ...

Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...