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 ...

For the uninitiated, a chanter is the part of bagpipes that bears the fingerholes, which allow the piper to play a melody. ... The Great Highland bagpipe has a limited scale, ...

Highland bagpipe music is written in the key of D major, where the C and F are sharp. Due to the lack of chromatic notes, to change key is also to change mode. Watch Finlay play the chanter ...

Inspired by seeing a bagpipe player in his youth, Chukwu Oba Kalu wanted more Nigerians to play. ... The chanter arrived in 2009, several years after he sent out his first emails.