Dick Hensold

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Dick Hensold is an American folk musician based in the state of Minnesota. An active promoter of bagpipes, he plays Northumbrian smallpipes, Swedish pipes (sackpipa), Medieval great-pipes, recorder, seljefloyte, low whistle and string bass. He played the Edinburgh Folk Festival in 1994, the Lowland and Border Piper's Society Collogue (Peebles, Scotland) in 1997, and has taught Northumbrian smallpipes at workshops in the United States, Canada, and Northumberland.

He has also studied Cambodian music for many years, and performs in the ensemble Light From Heaven, led by Cambodian master musician Bun Loeung.