bagpipes

Guest Writer Neil Clark writes about Bagpipes: Most people think of bagpipes as an exclusively Scottish instrument. This isn’t really the case, as pipes have existed in many countries since ancient times. In fact, it has been claimed that Nero didn’t fiddle as Rome burned, but played the pipes. Well, maybe. And the pipes still exist in many forms, all over the world. But here, we’re talking about a particular form of pipe, namely the "Great Highland Bagpipe", and few could argue that the Scots haven’t made it their own. Even today, when two pipe bands from Canada and one from the Republic … [Read more...] about Scotland and the Bagpipes