The Highland bagpipe is a part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in Normandy on D-Day during World War II.

Don Scoby, Whidbey Islander, post commander of the Scottish American Military Society and avid bagpiper, recently published a ...

The popular Great Highland Bagpipe is used the world over to lift the spirits with tattoos and massed pipe bands and to remember and mourn the dead at funerals and memorials. It inspires soldiers ...

The bagpipes, most commonly seen in their Great Highland form from Scotland, are a loud and imposing musical instrument. Known for being difficult to practice quietly, they’re not the ideal ...

He says: “The Post-Culloden era was definitely a low point for the Highland bagpipes along with the death of Gaelic Piobaireachd music, which is considered as being the true roots of Scottish ...

Ewan Sinclair - of William Sinclair & Son - is one of the last remaining artisans in the world crafting bagpipes by hand.

The bagpipes caught on. Before long, Macalester had a pipe band, highland dancers, an official tartan plaid and a standing offer of free bagpipe lessons — free bagpipes included — for any stud ...

Adorned in tartan kilts, Glengarry hats, and shoulder bags laden with their majestic Highland bagpipes and drums, the Kuala Lumpur Pipes and Drums band has become a quintessential part of the ...