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 ...

This bagpipe was made by Robert Reid in Northshields, Northumberland, England, between 1932-1947. It is an Uillean bagpipe, bellows blown, bag is not present. It has stained maple pipes and stocks ...

The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in northern France on D-Day. But the ...

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 ...

Bagpipes are mostly synthetic nowadays — reeds, chanters, drones; even the bags are rarely fashioned from animal hide any more. But the sound is still primitive, primal: a single octave plus one, the ...

Once banned from the airwaves, the Tunisian bagpipe has made a comeback. Known locally as a " mizwad ", this traditional Tunisian instrument is made from two cow horns connected to pieces of river ...

Bagpipes are an instrument at least a millennia old, the most popular of which, in modern times, is the Great Highland bagpipe. There are other types of bagpipes, some of which have a bellows rather ...