To mark her longest reign, the pipers of the Royal Highland Fusiliers play what they call a "historic tune" publicly for the first time Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more ...

The musician, known as Piper to the Sovereign, has the honour of acting as a human alarm clock for Her Majesty, blasting tunes in earshot of the Queen’s bedroom every weekday. Piper to the Sovereign ...

The 10th annual Radford Highlanders Festival is today and Saturday, so what better time to break out our favorite bagpipe jokes? What's the difference between a bagpipe and an onion? No one cries when ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Each year, thousands of people enjoy the tunes played by the bagpipers marching through downtown Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day. The history of the bagpipe can be traced back to ...

A research project aims to uncover long-forgotten music composed by pipers in the killing fields of the First World War. Several of today's best known bagpipe tunes, such as Battle of the Somme and ...

The Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band meets weekly and already has a few performances scheduled. PORTLAND -The long, low drone of bagpipes has enchanted many people for centuries. “There’s always something ...

If you've read me for a while, you know I like music and robots. So when I discovered via The Scotsman that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have built a robot bagpiper, I wanted to ...

From Anzac Day services and military events to multicultural festivals, the bagpipes are deeply rooted in Australia's cultural life. A regional Queensland pipe band is finding the balance between ...

In German, it’s called a dudelsack or a sackpfeife, in French a musette. The Italians know it as a piva, while in Spain it’s referred to as a gaita. But to Scotsmen like Iain McLeod of Edinburgh, it’s ...