On March 6, the lower church at St. Patrick Parish hummed with a cacophony of reed instruments called “practice chanters” and ...

The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that ...

Meet the talented bagpipe player and leader of the Palmetto ... Tuesday evenings we teach our chanter students and we teach students at different levels of learning. And then we get together ...

The bagpipes, most commonly seen in their Great ... A recorder is then installed into the bag to act as the chanter – the part of the instrument with with pitch is controlled by finger position.

The chanter makes nine notes from low G ... bag to push enough air through to get the stiff reed vibrating. Highland bagpipe music is written in the key of D major, where the C and F are sharp.

But before the practice session on the chanter (a small part of the bagpipe) Lady MacRae explained the significance of VE Day. High-profile official events to mark the occasion may become rarer as ...