“Most of them don’t make it.” Playing competitively, as Barr did, is both time-consuming and expensive. “People who start out on bagpipes are like baby turtles going out into the ocean,” Green said. Playing the bagpipes is notoriously difficult. Green recalled, “Bill definitely preferred the military marches.” In competition, the band performed such classics as “The Sheepwife,” “Highland Wedding,” and “The Cockerel in the Creel.” It also did contemporary jigs, hornpipes, and polkas. “He came ready to play at the top level,” Green said. After graduating, he joined a private law practice, then a pipe band. I’ve seen pictures of him, ten years old, wearing a Balmoral bonnet, a kilt, a doublet, big bagpipes on his shoulder.” Barr moved to D.C., in 1973, to work for the C.I.A. “He started playing as a young kid, in New York. “Bill was a serious piper,” Mike Green, a fellow band member, said recently. Throughout the eighties, Barr performed in the City of Washington Pipe Band-one of the top bagpipe ensembles in the world-giving new meaning to the cool-dad line “I used to be in a band.” And, no, it wasn’t just a onetime thing, in college, where he mistook a set of bagpipes for a bong. This magazine has located five individuals who attest that Barr, who has come under fire for his SparkNotes summary of the Mueller report, plays the bagpipes. There’s an old saying: “A true gentleman is a man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.” In March, when Donald Trump called in to “Hannity” to tout Jeff Sessions’s replacement, he crowed, “Our new Attorney General, Bill Barr, is a great gentleman.” But new information has come to light.
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