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 ...

While most students were enjoying the St. Patrick’s Day madness — sheltered from the rain in The Blarney Stone or a packed fraternity house — the five-man Penn Pipes bagpipe band was parading down ...

"It's the most aggravating, frustrating, embarrassing, annoying, lovable instrument I've ever played," — Tyler Lembcke, member of the Chattanooga Pipe Band, about the bagpipes. When the weather's nice ...

Ryan Randall's marathon bagpipe sets made him something of an icon downtown. He took a break from his show at Public Garden to tell the Globe why he plays. (Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff) You always hear ...

It's a sound that may strike fear or annoyance into the hearts of rivals. This week, European soccer's governing body announced that bagpipes will be allowed in the stands at this summer's ...

First-grade students at Reeves Elementary celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by wearing green and putting their hands over their ears when they heard the first loud drones of a real bagpipe. This is the ...

Robert Grubb learned the bagpipes in the early 1980s when his Celtic marching group needed players. Around St. Patrick’s Day is his busiest time, but he’s called upon all year to lend ceremonial ...

Tourist shops in Scotland's capital have been banned from playing loud bagpipe music out into the streets. Edinburgh City Council environmental officers began patrolling the city's "tartan shops" this ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Thieves who broke into a car in Melbourne this week found themselves lumbered with exotic loot prone to loud squawking in the wrong ...

It happens every St. Patrick’s Day. The bagpipers come crawling out from their whiskey-laden lairs. Dressed in tartan with tilted glengarries and jaunty sporrans, they nestle themselves into the back ...

I find it easy to wake up in the morning. I simply laze around in bed until the guy downstairs starts playing his bagpipes (or really loud recordings of talentless people practicing the bagpipes — ...