What do AC/DC, the Broadway musical Brigadoon, Paul McCartney and Classical Sprouts have in common?
The bagpipes!
Most of us probably associate the bagpipes with Scotland, but they’re actually from the Middle East.
Historians think they arrived in what we now call Great Britain with Roman invaders who conquered the area around 43 A.D.
We talked to Peter Deneen, the Pipe Major with Grand Traverse Pipes and Drums from Traverse City, Michigan, to find out more about the bagpipes and how they work!
The name “bagpipes” actually tells us a lot about this complicated instrument.
The bagpipes have five pipes; the player blows into one to make reeds – like you’d see on a clarinet or saxophone – in the…
