"It's the most aggravating, frustrating, embarrassing, annoying, lovable instrument I've ever played," — Tyler Lembcke, member of the Chattanooga Pipe Band, about the bagpipes. When the weather's nice ...

The 11th annual Pipes in the Valley Celtic Music Festival at the Mortensen Riverfront Plaza in Hartford this Saturday, Sept. 28, promises a full day of Scottish meat pies, local micro-brews and good ...

Today, bagpipes are most closely associated with Scotland. But did you know they can be traced back to an entirely different continent? Think of bagpipes, and you probably picture a piper wearing ...

Every time I chat with Mike Dow, I learn something new. And that "something" moves about a wide range of subjects reflecting the various, highly creative, artistic pursuits in which this York-born ...

The whole family of pipes are all based around very simple principals of a bag, chanter and drones. All these things go together to make what we now know as the sound of the pipes. Piping, like so ...

EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - Some makers of Scotland's traditional bagpipes are feeling the squeeze of the credit crunch in the U.S. market, but have found new customers and a growing market in Asia. A ...

PARIS, July 31 (Reuters) - The Paris Olympics have revealed a new endurance sport - bagpipe-busking from Melbourne to Paris. Skateboarding and its array of tricks like the half pipe may be hitting the ...