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 ...

When the weather is warm—or at least not freezing cold—Chris Johnson spends his lunch hour as often as he can in the large cemetery on East Fifth Street. He stands alone under an enormous oak tree ...

Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough bagpipes ...

When he first started work as the music teacher for the Athena-Weston School District, Jacob Gau had to give himself a crash course in the bagpipes. Now in his second year, Gau has moved onto printing ...

John Hamilton admits a person has to be “ about half- daft” to play the bagpipe. “ You're in a constant no-win situation trying to keep air in a bag that has four holes wanting to let the air out,” ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. − If you're looking for a new hobby and you've always wanted to try the bagpipes, you're in luck: A Lafayette-based teacher is a professionally trained bagpiper looking for more ...

Each school day before the morning bell rings, at 7:30 a.m., the loud wail of bagpipes drifts from the Great Hearts Monte Vista North campus across the neighborhood north of downtown. Parents driving ...