Scotland Magazine

SOUND OF HOME

here are few souls that don’t stir to the skirl of the bagpipes and those are often from south of Hadrian’s Wall, perhaps a legacy of the times when they heralded the arrival of a rampaging Scottish army. For everyone else this unlikely breath-inflated tartan sack with a wee flute attached touches part of us rarely stirred outside screenings of and transports us

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