Listening to the bagpipes has been compared to torture. But who knew that playing them could kill you? British doctors are blaming the death of a 61-year-old Liverpool man on his bagpipes, whose moist ...

Ian Arthur, a master\'s of fine arts student at Indiana University, serenades passers-by at South Walnut Street and West Kirkwood Avenue Monday in honor of St. Patrick\'s Day. Kilt-clad Arthur ...

Bagpipes are mostly synthetic nowadays — reeds, chanters, drones; even the bags are rarely fashioned from animal hide any more. But the sound is still primitive, primal: a single octave plus one, the ...