The earliest records show pipe carvings on Hittite stones from the ancient Middle East. The popular Great Highland Bagpipe is used the world over to lift the spirits with tattoos and massed pipe ...

Long fascinated by the bagpipes, he arrived in Dagenham in March 1930 and chose 12 girls from his Sunday school to form the world’s first female pipe band. A former pipe major from the King’s ...

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

At 22, he said he got serious about learning the bagpipe, so he joined the Kanawha Valley Pipes and Drums, an organization that performs and teaches. McFarland said the main qualities needed for ...

Bagpipes are "in the doldrums" according to a new report, as the instrument continues to be one of the most unpopular in terms of sales in the UK. In 2019, the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums ...

Lieutenant PM Gordon Campbell, piper, composer and bagpipe instructor. Born: 20 May 1957 in Leith. Died: 1 January 2025, aged ...