It was in the early 1980s, on reading the study The Maltese Zaqq by J.K. Partridge and Frank Jeal (Galpin’s Society’s Journal, vol. 30, 1977, pp. 112-144), that I decided to see for myself why the ...

Pipe major Edmond Jackson became hooked on the haunting sound of the bagpipes as a teenager. He now plays the rare local version of the instrument, which he constructs himself, in a Maltese ...

Karl Partridge playing at a New Year’s Eve party last week. Losing the żaqq would be equivalent to losing a priceless ancient monument, according to the man who documented the Maltese bagpipe before ...

With reference to the article Nafra In Seven Suns Seven Moons Concert (August 19) where it was stated that in the 1970s the zaqq (Maltese bagpipe) playing "tradition had died out and nobody played it ...

It was probably the first ever Maltese band that performed on Indian soil. And the opportunity was seized by the five Maltese men to give a glimpse of their culture that Maltese people have begun ...

From the Roman Empire to Russian Tsars and the Scottish Highlands, Richard McLauchlan's new book The Bagpipes: A Cultural History explores the mythology, history, and global reverberations of the ...

Maltese composer and musician Ruben Zahra and accordionist Andrew Micallef are among the first participants in the world to interact with a musical composition, harmony, specially commissioned by ...