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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2019, the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust charity cited a ‘silent decline’ in bagpipe learning ... to 30,000 children who would like to play the pipes and drums unable to.