A music student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow is helping to show that the bagpipes are more than "just a traditional instrument". Anna Smart, 24, who is originally from Fife ...

There are whisky cocktails to wash it down with, which may also be taken as fortification for the bagpipe accompaniment from The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment, a pipe band formed in ...

In most cases, this tune is Burns’, ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’, played on the bagpipes. Watch a procession of the haggis, accompanied by Burns’ tune below. In the procession, the chef (whoever made ...

They were playing a certain instrument [the bagpipes].” “I was instantly captivated by the melancholy sound. And then I thought, ‘I'm going to quit cooking and learn to play the bagpipes’.” ...

Credit: Cimabue, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 One of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in European history is the significant impact of Byzantine art on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ...

1. The Scotsman newspaper warns that bagpipes face an ‘existential threat’. Their poor sales last year found them in the bottom three worst-selling instruments in the UK, along with the kazoo ...

A man is feeding his mule, Byzantine Mosaic, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th century AD. Credit: Hagia Sophia Research Team, World History Encyclopedia, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Life in Greece during the ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...