They’re nearly as old as time. Though they’re easily recognizable by sight, they’re even more recognizable by sound, a sound like no other musical instrument in the world.
“No one ever mistakes it,” said Roddy MacLellan of Summerville. “But there’s nothing like it. I think haunting would be accurate. Stirring, it stirs the blood.”
A native of Glasgow and proprietor of MacLellan’s Bagpipes, the Scotsman said the bagpipe is an instrument which leaves few listeners indifferent as to the high-pitched melodies created by the bass and tenor drones.
Thousands of years old, the pipes are typically associated today with the Highlands of Scotland. But MacLellan said in one form or another, bagpipes were originally part of every early culture.
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