From the Roman Empire to Russian Tsars and the Scottish Highlands, Richard McLauchlan's new book The Bagpipes: A Cultural History explores the mythology, history, and global reverberations of the ...

Think of bagpipes, and you probably picture a piper wearing tartan kilt, feather bonnet, and the three-tasselled sporran, playing ‘Scotland the Brave’, or perhaps ‘Skye Boat Song’. Scotland ...

The instrument you’ll think of first will be Great Highland Bagpipes of Scotland, which have their origins in the middle of the 16 th century. But the history of the bagpipes stretches as far ...

EDINBURGH: Illustrious for its unique and potent sound, the Highland bagpipe played a significant role in Scottish culture and history, which includes accompanying troops on their D-Day landing in ...

What sorrow then must bedew the visage of every Scot who hears that his time-honored bagpipes, drone, chanter, bellows and al , are not Scotch The skirl and the growl are not the proper companions ...

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 ...