Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...

The bagpipe occupies the strangest rung on the musical ladder, shaped like an octopus in plaid pants, sounding to some like a goose with its foot caught in an escalator and played during history’s ...

Michael Akard’s day job is teaching English at Modesto Junior College to immigrants from various lands. In his leisure time, he celebrates his own Scottish heritage by playing the bagpipes. That ...