IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These bagpipe reeds were made by an ...

A wee donnybrook has broken out over a 20th-century improvement on a 16th-century musical instrument: synthetic bagpipe bags. W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., the Newark, Del.-based maker of Gore-Tex ...

This bagpipe was made by Robert Reid in Northshields, Northumberland, England, between 1932-1947. It is an Uillean bagpipe, bellows blown, bag is not present. It has stained maple pipes and stocks ...

Some may liken their sound to the screeching of a cat in pain. To others, though, bagpipe music inspires strong emotion and even tears. And it will surely be a surprise for many to discover that one ...

Bagpipes are an instrument at least a millennia old, the most popular of which, in modern times, is the Great Highland bagpipe. There are other types of bagpipes, some of which have a bellows rather ...

AN ICONIC Scots music firm has been liquidated after plunging into a financial crisis. RT Shepherd and Sons is a well-loved bagpipe manufacturer in Fife, which has been selling its chanters and reeds ...

Springfield resident Tom Ogilvy, the pipe major of the local St. Andrew Society of Central Illinois band, has a simple description of what it is like to play the bagpipes. “It's like rubbing your ...