EDINBURGH, Scotland, April 19 (UPI) -- A Scottish historian says the Highland bagpipe and the traditions, history and legend surrounding it were 19th century inventions. While the bagpipe has ancient ...

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The skirl of bagpipes breaks the evening stillness in downtown Towson, and the surprise of it slows passing cars and pulls pedestrians out of a nearby ice cream shop. The centuries-old music of tears ...

EDINBURGH: Illustrious for its unique and potent sound, the Highland bagpipe played a significant role in Scottish culture and history, which includes accompanying troops on their D-Day landing in ...

Bagpipes, the iconic national musical instrument of Scotland, may have originated in India more than 3,000 years ago. Dr Vivien Williams, a researcher from Glasgow University, has been tracing ...

Of the 156,000 Allied troops that landed on D-Day, 83,000 of them were British or Canadian and, of those, only one was playing bagpipes. As his colleagues fell around him, one man survived the day ...

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It was a tribute that was out of this world. A NASA astronaut has made history by becoming the first man to play the bagpipes in space. Kjell Lindgren, from Colorado, played ‘Amazing Grace’ on board ...