bagpiper
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The doors had opened at 22:30 BST on Saturday under a beautiful orange sunset sky, as the fans were played in by a bagpiper.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Everyone was struck by the lone bagpiper in the gallery at Westminster Abbey, which Mackie calls the “most exquisite, simple, beautiful, poetic thing I’d ever heard and seen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
His inability to see had him briefly thinking, of all things, that he was now the second blind bagpiper in his pipe band.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
McEwan, too, can be funny, as he demonstrates in a scene with a funeral bagpiper who obliviously marches to the wrong grave.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
“What a racket,” Madame Ionesco said appreciatively of the bagpiper, as she stumbled half asleep from the hired carriage and flashed her semitoothless grin.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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