Robert Hackney plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and his favorite of all, the Great Scottish bagpipes. He picked up bagpipes 34 years ago because of an interest in folk music. “I fell in love,” Hackney ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The sound of a bagpipe is undeniably powerful, for better or for worse. Even without words, the sound of the shrill wind instrument wailing throughout marching drums will replay ...

Fans of all things Celtic will have plenty to do at the 30th Annual Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival this weekend, including bagpipe performances and competitions. Fans of bagpipe music are in for a ...

Curling superstar Eve Muirhead says competing at World Pipe Band Championships helped her become known as the Ice Queen on ...

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Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough bagpipes ...

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Listening to the bagpipes has been compared to torture. But who knew that playing them could kill you? British doctors are blaming the death of a 61-year-old Liverpool man on his bagpipes, whose moist ...