On a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, Jack Devereux was in the garage behind his family’s Asheville home, building bagpipes. With the help of a lathe, Devereux was trimming a block of an exotic ...

Bagpipes are an instrument at least a millennia old, the most popular of which, in modern times, is the Great Highland bagpipe. There are other types of bagpipes, some of which have a bellows rather ...