The Bagpipes Spring26 In this urgent sequel to

In this urgent sequel to Empireland

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It's as wild and fun as Lois's former home was prim and stifling

The Bagpipes Spring26 In this urgent sequel toA diverse history of the pipes from inspiring terror on battlefields to enriching cultures worldwide. History's first named bagpiper is a man playing a pipe 'with a bag tucked under his armpit' in the first century CE. He was the Roman Emperor Nero. Since then, this improbable conflation of bag and sticks has become the world's most beloved and contested instrument. Another piping emperor, Tsar Peter the Great, decided that his departed pet bear would