When Duncan Menzies was young (a Scot might say wee) he decided he wanted to learn to play the bagpipes. He was successful — after years of incredibly trying practice. Then, in his twenties, he ...

EDINBURGH: Illustrious for its unique and potent sound, the Highland bagpipe played a significant role in Scottish culture and history, which includes accompanying troops on their D-Day landing in ...

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 chanter was owned by 17th Century Am Pìobaire Dall - the blind piper. Scotland’s oldest known bagpipe chanter and a bible carried by an unknown soldier at Culloden have been included in a ...

Okay, so it’s kind of a gloomy thought so early in 2017, but would there be a more badass way to close out your eventual funeral — years in the future, mind you! — than by having a 3D-printed robot ...

EDINBURGH — The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in northern France on D-Day ...