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WIND instrument players are being warned by doctors over possible lung damage after a bagpipe player is believed to have died from a reaction to mouldy pipes. Doctors writing in the journal Thorax ...

A music expert has warned bagpipes are becoming “critically endangered” - slumping into the bottom five least purchased instruments last year. The traditional Scottish instrument is not being taken up ...

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People who love to play a variety of wind instruments such as trumpets, bagpipes or saxophones, better be careful. They are at an increased risk of a ‘bagpipe lung’, a deadly inflammatory lung disease ...

SCOTTISH musicians told their English counterparts to pipe down when they tried to claim our traditional instrument as their own this week. Folkie Nicholas Konradsen claimed that bagpipes were ...

Musicians who play wind instruments need to clean them regularly to prevent the growth of molds and fungi that can cause "bagpipe lung", a rare but potentially fatal condition. Doctors blame the death ...