Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of ...

A bagpipe is a woodwind instrument made up of several parts, Morris said, including the squeeze bag, which is inflated using a blowstick before any music can be made.

Rosewood or ebony serve as the blowstick, into which players exhale. The drones ... But the bagpipe had to wait until the mid-19th century for British colonialists to bring it to subcontinental ...

Rosewood or ebony serves as the blowstick, into which players exhale ... "In my family, all the boys know how to make a bagpipe, step-by-step," said Farooq. "When we were seven or eight, we ...

Rosewood or ebony serve as the blowstick, into which players exhale. ... Bagpipes and pipe bands must be encouraged, especially March 23rd parade, and other major events.

Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of ...

Rosewood or ebony serve as the blowstick, into which players exhale. The drones — long pipes with a lower tone — follow a similar process. A worker tests a set of bagpipes at the Mid East bagpipe ...

Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of bagpipes each year. The fresh smell of wood floats through ...