Piping The Way full DVD filmed in 2008 follows renowned Bagpiper Stuart Liddell as he journeys across Scotland on the West Highland Way with the Inveraray and Districts Pipe Band Juniors as part of their team building exercise.
The film features beautiful Scottish scenery and fantastic bagpipe performances along the way.
For the first time here at Dojo U, we recently rallied our students to form Team Dojo – a 'virtual band' made up from Dojo students all…
Especially in more recent history, the Highland Regiments of the British Armed Forces, and some of the Lowland Regiments as well, have had bagpipers since their first formation.
The United States Armed Forces has historically had a very close relationship with the British – so the spread of the bagpipes was inevitable.
Before we start - I just want to thank my diligent co-author Dr. John Holcombe for helping me assemble this article! This article was formed…
For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.
The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.
Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...
If you're learning or playing the bagpipes with a band, it's common to have a pipe chanter handed to you to play when you're playing…
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