Thanks to a strong culture of passing down music by ear, the first piece of music written down for the bagpipes may not have appeared until the 18th century. A document from the 1730s known as the ...

(Therese Powell/KERA News) Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional Irish instrument that date back to the 18th century. But, as popular as they are in Ireland ...

He said: “With the Jacobite wars of the 18th century and Bonnie Prince Billy, the bagpipes were used on both sides to rally troops. Then you get the assembling of a British army in the late 18th ...