Like long-winded politicians, Scottish bagpipes dominate at funerals and formal parades. But while the Scottish variety might have a higher and much louder profile, another type of bagpipe is ...

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 ...

More power to his elbow as uilleann pipe maker and musician Aodán MacSéafraidh celebrates three decades of creating the pipes ...

It was dark, hot and humid up in the main hall on the third floor of the Irish-American Heritage Center. Brendan McKinney was having trouble with his pipes. Not the kind of trouble that has long led ...