MANKATO — For Noah Schmid, learning how to play bagpipes was motivated by a desire to fill some time. “I was bored during COVID and I wanted to play an instrument,” he said. “I didn’t want to start ...

Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...