The death of a bagpipe player has revealed a disease-causing fungus lurking in unclean instruments – and musicians are not its only victims Pass notes: Bagpipe lung. Age: New, but probably old.

We've got a piper down! I repeat, the piper is down. Actually, these days, the piper is doing just fine, but there was a time when John McLean Allan left his bagpipes - an instrument he'd played since ...

Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional ...

The 61-year-old patient was admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital, complaining of breathing difficulties. It was later revealed that he had contracted a fungal infection (triggering hypersensitivity ...

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BAGPIPE chiefs last night launched a proud defence of the instrument in the face of claims they’re not truly Scottish. But experts say that pipes from thousands of years are nothing like the ones ...