A set of bagpipes believed to have been created for King Louis XIV of France in the late 17th century are on display in Northumberland, England, just in time for International Bagpipe Day.

This bagpipe was made by an unknown maker in France, around 1775-1799. It is a musette bagpipe, bellows blown, with a sewn leather bag with 2 covers of faded and discolored material. It has rosewood ...

The musette de cour, believed to be the oldest set of bagpipes in the world, were constructed in the late 17th century for King Louis XIV of France.

One day, Gibb, who hails from Scotland, says a woman, now being dubbed "Bagpipe Karen," got in his face and demanded he stop playing. Gibb says the 76-year-old woman took a swing at his wife.

Musette de cour Contributed by The Bagpipe Museum This musical instrument is a very early, rare example of a musette de cour, a bagpipe played at the French court.

Eunice Isgur, 76, became inconsolably irate when she heard Scotland native Scott Gibb playing the bagpipes in Houston’s Terry Hershey Park on Monday, and confronted him aggressively with her … ...

Ahead of World Bagpipe Day this weekend, a set of bagpipes owned by a French king hundreds of years ago thought to be the oldest in the world have been put on ... Known as a musette de cour, ...

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 ...

The bagpipe was forgotten but left its name to the genre, musette. And there were also a large Roma Gypsy population in France, and they contributed a lot of their style to this genre also.

In France the bagpipe was a favorite instrument in Marie Antoinette’s day. Marie herself piped. Courtiers called it the musette and equipped it with hand bellows so that their pretty faces would ...

Bagpipes can conjure images of kilts & sporrans, ... Le Berger Poète: Suites et Sonates pour flute et musette, Alpha 148. 5:26am. Korb, Michael | Roever, Ulrich. Highland Cathedral [04'06] ...