There is no other music quite like the sound of bagpipes, and for one group of bagpipers in Cape Girardeau, performing with them is as much a chance to socialize as it is to honor tradition. Terry ...

THEIR skirl has stirred the heart of red-blooded Scots for generations. But a group of musicians is setting out to show that you don’t need to come from north of the border to play the bagpipes. Up to ...

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 ...

Bagpipe students, members of the Vieira Brum music band, play at the Marica beach in Brazil, on May 28, 2022 - Copyright AFP Tolga Akmen Bagpipe students, members of ...

Having friends who are musicians has enlightened me about the persona of many musical instruments. It didn’t take me long to realize the banjo is a joke to many. I never knew that and, frankly, don’t ...

Engineers emulating bagpipes are flummoxed by an annoying clipping soundThe board consisted of two processors, one for control and main algorithm processing and other one for sound effects generating.

They are louder than the noise of a chainsaw. More piercing than than a jet plane taking off. They can cause you permanent ear damage and even ruin your marriage. They are Scotland's national musical ...

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Eric McKee's face is swollen and red as he strains to breathe oxygen into his lungs. He looks similar to someone who has just struggled to complete the Army Physical Fitness ...

WAUWATOSA -- During the second week in March, things really started to change in the United States as the coronavirus took hold. Sports seasons were postponed, students and teachers moved to remote ...

Thousands of kilometers (miles) from the United Kingdom, the kilts are out on a Rio de Janeiro beach that suddenly looks like something out of the Scottish Highlands. Eleven-year-old Davi Portugal is ...