TRADITIONAL music provision, such as lessons in the bagpipes and the fiddle, has become almost inaccessible to schoolchildren in Scotland, according to a survey by one of the country’s ...

The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in northern France on D-Day. But the ...

A report by Roddy MacLeod, principal of the National Piping Centre, showed only 6.5 per cent of all instrumental music taught in Scottish schools is on traditional instruments such as bagpipes, ...

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