Bagpipes are made out of a few parts. The drones are pipes that are tuned to play a single note. They are tuned by the fixed length of the pipe. The chanter is a tube with finger holes.

The famous Scottish pipes joined kazoo, bassoon, tenor horn, oboe and flugelhorn as the least bought instruments of 2024.

"Bagpipes are what I live for," says Jim, who started learning when he was 12 ... He said it had been a long journey to be able to play the bagpipes again. Once he had mastered blowing into ...

The whole family of pipes are all based around very simple principals of a bag, chanter and drones. All these things go together to make what we now know as the sound of the pipes. Piping, like so ...

Talking about Scotland, most people think of men in skirts playing bagpipes which became a symbol of Scottish identity during ...

He was captivated, and told himself that one day he would learn how to play ... between the bagpipes and traditional Nigerian instruments After he started to play the practice chanter, Chukwu ...

"I would love to see more people like me playing the bagpipes," Alexander said. "I always look to my cousins and think of how I can encourage them to learn to play." With graduation only months ...

In 2019, the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust charity cited a ‘silent decline’ in bagpipe learning, with only 6,000 learning ... had left up to 30,000 children who would like to play the pipes ...

BAGPIPES face an “existential threat” as they have become one of the least popular musical instruments amongst budding musicians. The Scottish icon has ended up in the bottom five of worst selling ...