The Bagpipe Society

IBO Conference in Plovdiv

I knew the International Bagpipe Organisation had chosen the right country to hold its conference when, a couple of days before the conference opened, I asked a curator at the Ethnographic Museum in Plovdiv how she knew so much about bagpipes. Did she play, I asked? "Oh no… but you have to understand, for every Bulgarian, the bagpipe is our instrument, our soul. When I hear it, I get goose pimples, every time!"

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