The daughter and granddaughter of a First World War hero have personally handed over his bagpipes to the Newton Stewart Museum. Willie Marr piped troops into battle during the Somme offensive and the ...

The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports: Every spring, when Scotland thaws and roars back ...

On Memorial Day, Kris Carmichael honored the fallen with his breath, playing bagpipes.Carmichael has spent the past 40 years playing his bagpipe at memorials offering a musical tribute to those who ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kim Greeley makes bagpipe playing look effortless. It isn’t. "You have to build a person up physically," she said. "We can't change the pitch at all, and we can't ...

‘It was stupid as hell. Men falling all around me, falling dead. It was bloody horrible … (but) hearing the pipes gave the troops courage.’ — Harry Lunan, First World War piper. Imagine the feeling of ...

AFTER Wembley can there be any greater insult? Not for the first time, an English court is taking it upon itself to adjudicate whether the bagpipes can honestly be described as a musical instrument.

A pair of Second World War bagpipes have a special connection to one Halifax family. “My grandfather played the bagpipes on Juno Beach, on D-Day and the set of bagpipes he played on Juno Beach, are ...

It was about two years ago when I saw Daniel Kim demonstrating his talents on the bagpipes. He was one of the participants in public antiwar demonstrations during the first weeks of Russia's invasion ...