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1. The Scotsman newspaper warns that bagpipes face an ‘existential threat’. Their poor sales last year found them in the bottom three worst-selling instruments in the UK, along with the kazoo ...

The Irving S. Gilmore School of Music at Western Michigan University is dedicated to music as an art form that elevates the lives of all who experience it; that embraces and transcends the entire ...

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