When you spend nearly 40 years in a stressful job like law enforcement, having a way to let off steam can be quite important. For Jack Brennan, that outlet came in the form of the Uilleann pipes, also ...

A music expert has warned bagpipes are becoming “critically endangered” - slumping into the bottom five least purchased instruments last year. The traditional Scottish instrument is not being taken up ...

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We've always thought of bagpipes as being rather sinister instruments, but it turns out they can cause far more harm than just bad taste. A man who died in 2014 by mysterious causes has now been ...

WIND instrument players are being warned by doctors over possible lung damage after a bagpipe player is believed to have died from a reaction to mouldy pipes. Doctors writing in the journal Thorax ...

People who love to play a variety of wind instruments such as trumpets, bagpipes or saxophones, better be careful. They are at an increased risk of a ‘bagpipe lung’, a deadly inflammatory lung disease ...

Musicians who play wind instruments need to clean them regularly to prevent the growth of molds and fungi that can cause "bagpipe lung", a rare but potentially fatal condition. Doctors blame the death ...