10 Aug 2022

Ian Chapman on the use of bagpipes in rock & pop

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 10 August 2022

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Music correspondent Ian Chapman looks at the popularity of an instrument with a very distinctive sound...the bagpipes.

They're stirring, and conjure up an air of grandeur and history - but real bagpipes can be very problematic to record in the studio and sometimes synthesisers or guitars are used to imitate them.

He'll look at the reasons why.

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