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 ...
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 ...
ZEBULON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Calling all bagpipe players! Skip Scotland and head to downtown Zebulon to visit MacLellan's Bagpipes. "People don't connect bagpipes with this area," said Joe Brady, who works ...
Not every bagpipe-playing altar boy considering joining the priesthood grows up to be a Hasidic Jew — but Ian Sherman did. Ian, known today in many circles by his Hebrew name Ephraim Eliyahu, was born ...
He's the only one of his kind wielding a 5-pound bagpipe with cornrows in his hair. You may have seen him at memorials, like for the late longtime Sen. Kirk Schuring, on television performing at the ...
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - An 11-year-old in Hawaii has taken to playing one of the most difficult instruments in the world to master. Anderson Bailey is only 11, and he’s hooked on bagpipes. He said ...
Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough bagpipes ...