“When pipes are going well, it’s heavenly. When they’re not, it can be misery if you don’t know what to do,” says uilleann pipe maker, Aodán MacSéafraidh. Luckily, that’s not a problem for the ...

It’s an idea that Jack Lee calls tailor-made for the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band – bags with zippers. Using an industrial sewing machine in the basement of his Surrey home, the pipe sergeant of ...