Bagpipe players with traditional Scottish uniform, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Motion blur, a group of Scottish Highland pipers wearing traditional tartan clothing, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Piper blowing the pipes, Scottish Highland Games, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Massed pipers of the Dufftown and District pipe band, Scottish Highland Games, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Scottish girls in tartan kilts dancing the sword dance at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Scottish girls in tartan kilts dancing the sword dance at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Traditional Scottish piper with bagpipes at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Scottish couple in tartan kilts dancing the sword dance at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Traditional Scottish band in tartan kilts marching at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Scottish girl in tartan kilt dancing traditional dance at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Traditional Scottish band in tartan kilts marching at the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering, the Braemar Games in Scotland

Drum Major leads massed band of Scottish pipers at Braemar Games Highland Gathering, Scotland

Bagpipe player of massed band of Scottish pipers at Braemar Games Highland Gathering, Scotland

Drum Major leads massed band of Scottish pipers at the Braemar Games Highland Gathering

Scottish Piper playing bagpipes at the Braemar Games, Braemar, Scotland

Fringe Festival on The Royal Mile, Old Town, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A Scottish piper in traditional dress busking on Rannoch Moor in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A Scottish piper in traditional dress busking on Rannoch Moor in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional music of Galicia. Gaiteiros Rio de anxo. Old Town, Santiago de Compostela, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Galicia, Spain. Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known examples in the Anglophone world, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe. The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or the plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as the pipes, a set of pipes or a stand of pipes.

Traditional music of Galicia. Gaiteiros Rio de anxo. Old Town, Santiago de Compostela, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Galicia, Spain. Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known examples in the Anglophone world, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe. The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or the plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as the pipes, a set of pipes or a stand of pipes.

Traditional music of Galicia. Gaiteiros Rio de anxo. Old Town, Santiago de Compostela, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Galicia, Spain. Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipes are the best known examples in the Anglophone world, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe. The term bagpipe is equally correct in the singular or the plural, though pipers usually refer to the bagpipes as the pipes, a set of pipes or a stand of pipes.

Scottish bagpipes group Grampian Police, Buergerfest festival, Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Kilt, sporran purse and bagpipes case, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

A young man plays scottish bagpipes in Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie, Scotland, United Kingdom, August 2007