Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...

I first became interested in the bagpipes at the age of 11, a time when my older brother was learning to play the chanter, which is smaller and a lot quieter than the bagpipes. The chanter is the ...

Kevin Konetzka, left, and Mike Kutsko, right, with Southern Indiana Pipes and Drums, play the bagpipes during a memorial service to honor fallen police officers across the United States at Public ...

CONCORD, N.H. — The skirl of their pipes had barely receded before two New Hampshire teenagers learned a hard lesson in cross-border musical diplomacy: If your bagpipes have ivory in them, leave them ...

"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 ...