A set of bagpipes owned by a French king believed to be the oldest set in the world has been put on display ahead of World Bagpipe Day on March 10. The pipes, displayed at Morpeth Chantry in ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEQUIM — Heidi Slack said there is a beauty and connection that comes from knowing the history of the bagpipes and the tunes. “Each piece of music being played usually has an old, and often tragic, ...

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 ...

When he first started work as the music teacher for the Athena-Weston School District, Jacob Gau had to give himself a crash course in the bagpipes. Now in his second year, Gau has moved onto printing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 31—If Beverly York was suddenly transported to the 1870s, her hobbies would not reveal her as a time traveler, though her ...

An Olympic arena’s house band is devoted to a sound, not stones. “I honestly don’t know much about the rules,” one musician said. “What we like most is the bagpipes.” By Rick Rojas Photographs by ...