Those who frequent Bethesda Avenue for morning bagels or coffee have likely heard the Scottish hymns coming from the bagpipes of Ben Williams. Actually, if you’re within three blocks of Williams ...
The musician, known as Piper to the Sovereign, has the honour of acting as a human alarm clock for Her Majesty, blasting tunes in earshot of the Queen’s bedroom every weekday. Piper to the Sovereign ...
Dan Grollman MSc'05 GS knows his audience well. Standing by the flagpole outside Rhode Island Hall, the computer science Ph.D. candidate arranged the arm strap of his instrument - a hefty bagpipe - ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Each year, thousands of people enjoy the tunes played by the bagpipers marching through downtown Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day. The history of the bagpipe can be traced back to ...
If you've read me for a while, you know I like music and robots. So when I discovered via The Scotsman that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have built a robot bagpiper, I wanted to ...
In one corner of the workshop, Kenny Macleod was inspecting intricately-carved drones for Highland bagpipes. Across the room, Stuart McCallum was discussing the complexities of programming a computer- ...
It's drizzly and not yet 10 a.m. when a bagpipe tune floats out onto the Royal Mile, Scotland's most famous street. Follow the sound across the cobblestones, past Clarinda's Tea Shop and push open the ...
A new bagpipe tune has been composed to help support the work of a charity set up in honour of Manchester Arena victim Eilidh MacLeod. The 14-year-old was one of 22 ...
SNOOP Dogg was serenaded by a bagpipe rendition of one of his iconic songs as he touched down in Glasgow before his gig. The US rapper, 51, is set to play at the OVO Hyrdo tonight. The show was ...
In German, it’s called a dudelsack or a sackpfeife, in French a musette. The Italians know it as a piva, while in Spain it’s referred to as a gaita. But to Scotsmen like Iain McLeod of Edinburgh, it’s ...
A research project aims to uncover long-forgotten music composed by pipers in the killing fields of the First World War. Several of today's best known bagpipe tunes, such as Battle of the Somme and ...
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