President Joe Biden shared a video of someone playing the bagpipes at the White House, sparking a debate on Twitter regarding the origin of the instrument. “They really know how to make an Irishman ...

There is perhaps no sound so recognizable as the first drone of a bagpipe. That sustained note acts as harmony to the melody, which is fingered by the piper on the chanter. These days, bagpipes are ...

IT’S news likely to get Scots hot under the kilt as a historian claims that bagpipes — one of the nation’s national symbols — are not actually Scottish. Instead, the wailing wind instruments ...

In this video, we take a look at the uilleann piping of Ireland, which, today, comes under UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Uilleann piping is a musical practice that uses a ...

Among the vices Arthur Conan Doyle bestowed upon his most famous literary creation – alongside his nicotine addiction and a fondness for cocaine – was a tendency to scratch away discordantly on his ...