Away from the military music and jaunty reels of Burns Night, pibroch explores the hypnotic drone of the bagpipes – a style so powerful it can induce a trance state According to seasoned bagpiper John ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature (subscription required) on what it says is the “only student majoring in bagpipes at any American university or college.” He’s Nick Hudson, a freshman at ...

Let’s face it, the sound of bagpipes is a pretty Marmite-y proposition – for every person who goes glassy-eyed at a stirring reel, there’s someone else who wouldn’t wish such dour tunelessness upon ...