The Great Highland bagpipe has a limited scale, consisting of only nine notes. There’s also no articulation between notes, like the tonguing technique used with wind instruments.

He had to scale up his hands by 171% to get them to play the pipes correctly, ... The bagpipe plays notes that are “in between” those on a traditional orchestral instrument.

The Bagpipes are an ancient instrument. Although associated with Scotland and the Armed forces of the United Kingdom, they are not exclusive to Scotland. Most countries in Europe had a form of the ...

Doctors say mold and fungi lurking inside bagpipes probably caused a fatal infection they called “bagpipe lung.” Above, a bagpipes player in Houston in 1999. (Pat Sullivan / Associated Press) ...

Doctors are warning musicians to clean their wind instruments regularly — after a recently published study revealed it could be a matter of life or death. The report, published Monday in the … ...

The thought of bagpipes usually conjures up images of Scottish men in skirts — not auto-rickshaws and South Asian spices. But no country manufactures more bagpipes than Pakistan, and no place in ...

In New York City, your waiter is always an actor—In Scotland, they’re all musicians, or better yet—pipers. By night, David Provan (age 18) serves guests at Langass Lodge on the Isle of North ...