The Bagpipe Society

Angelic Pipers and Demonic Lures

tracing the symbolic meanings of bagpipes between Heaven and Hell

On a beautiful summer’s day in 2025, I found myself cycling through sleepy villages in West Sussex with cottages drowning in bloom, threading my way along half-abandoned country lanes and back roads towards three village churches. I was carrying my border pipes and säckpipa on my back and I’d come to play in the village churches to fill those wonderful acoustic places, that are so responsive to drone music, with sound for my own joy and for any chance passers-by.

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