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Everything you never wanted to know about the bagpipes
Manage episode 499269829 series 5467
While the bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland, how global is their history? The first written account of someone playing the bagpipes was Nero in the first century - was he playing them while Rome burned? How do you explain the absence of she-pipers in their history? And who were the pipers responsible for the first case of Scottish Nationalist terrorism in the 1940s.
Guest: Richard Maclauchlan. author of The Bagpipes: A Cultural History (Hurst)
750 episodes
Manage episode 499269829 series 5467
While the bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland, how global is their history? The first written account of someone playing the bagpipes was Nero in the first century - was he playing them while Rome burned? How do you explain the absence of she-pipers in their history? And who were the pipers responsible for the first case of Scottish Nationalist terrorism in the 1940s.
Guest: Richard Maclauchlan. author of The Bagpipes: A Cultural History (Hurst)
750 episodes
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