The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports: Every spring, when Scotland thaws and roars back ...

EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - Some makers of Scotland's traditional bagpipes are feeling the squeeze of the credit crunch in the U.S. market, but have found new customers and a growing market in Asia. A ...

From a distance, it may appear that Garrett Thompson and Jake Newcomb are playing recorders, those plastic instruments beloved by fourth-graders everywhere. These two middle-school boys have a loftier ...

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 ...

Whether you like your scotch on the rocks or neat, wear your kilt, um, with or without, think of haggis as comical or actual food and know the history of your tartan or just like the pattern, it is ...

Like most festivals devoted to Scottish culture, the annual Colorado Scottish Festival at the Highlands Heritage Park in Highlands Ranch features caber tossing, haggis eating and plenty of bagpiping.

SECAUCUS — In every sense but one, it was a traditional bagpipe band. Its three members led the ceremony to commemorate Sept. 11 in Secaucus on Sunday morning by playing America the Beautiful. Just ...

SIALKOT, Pakistan – It's not a sound you expect to hear in Pakistan. And yet, here we stand, in the heart of the country's Punjab province, listening to the theme song from “The Titanic” played on ...

On the new album Migrations, Cristina Pato plays the gaita, a bagpipe from her native region of Galicia in northwest Spain. Cristina Pato is a jazz pianist from Spain who also plays flute and sings.