Been playing for 15 years and still gives me chills to play piobairchd (classical bagpipe music) that would have been played during the period of this video. Please make more video with bagpipes
Totally agree...stirs this old Gaels soul..best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E
my next door neighbours are pipers, i keep telling them i have no problem with them practicing cos i love the pipes but i think they feel i`m just trying to be nice
If you can find nowhere else, find a highway interchange you can pull over and park at. Plenty of space for the GHB to sing out and no one gets bothered. Large cemeteries also...
I have played bagpipes for some 55 years with a small chunk of that as a Military Piper. My grandmothers maternal lines flow from both Douglas’ and Henderson lines. MacCrimmonds Lament was and is my favourite piobaireachd. We learned the canntaireachd and I understood the depths of the sorrow implied. Thank you for such a beautiful telling of, what to us pipers, is a truly sad story.
A video on the history of the pipes would be awesome!! A few years ago several friends were camping up in the mountains of Washington state in the USA. As we sat around the campfire, there came a haunting sound through the forest. I looked across the fire at the only other person there with Scots ancestry, and without a word, we both stood up and walked down the road not believing what we knew we were hearing. About a half-mile down the road was a campsite with a lone piper playing. He was on a long holiday touring the states and had brought his pipes with him. We had been drawn by the sound of the pipes and sat listening to him for an hour or so before we walked back to camp. I doubt that I will ever forget the undeniable draw the sound of the pipes had when we heard them calling through the forest.
"The pipes, the pipes are calling . . ." I've had people _run_ up to me -- and I am taking up my pipes again... my fingerings are much decayed just now. Good thing I am persnickety!
MacCrimmon's Lament is also a beautiful song - I have sung it many times. My father was a piper, and used to get angry when people talked about "the skirl of the pipes" - to pipers of my father's generation, a skirl was the name of the sound a piper made when his/her fingers didn't cover the holes on the chanter properly and so didn't get a pure note. So when people talked about the skirl of the pipes, to my father that meant they were saying that the piper was making lots of mistakes. Perhaps you could share that in your video about the history of the bagpipes!
Skirl is also when a bottom hand note like Low A or Low G makes a gurgling sound because the piper is blowing the reed too hard. Your dad was right though. It does show a lack of control of the instrument and "skirl" has always left me feeling the same.
Your father was absolutely right. Also, frying oatmeal and onions together makes a distinctive spluttering squeak - hence the name of the dish: "skirlie"
Yeah, my dad said on a couple of occasions that skirl referred to a mistake or tuning of the pipes, not the playing thereof. it wasn't until his funeral that I discovered that my Grandad 's name was Black, and my ancestry was Scottish.
I did not know that skirling was a reference to mistakes, I thought that's what the proper sound was called, what I don't care for is when the high A has too much screech.
when I was 5 I heard Highland Bagpipes for the first time. I still vividly remember how I felt that I had found Home when I heard them. I have loved bagpipes and Scotland with all my heart and soul ever since. Yes, please do a video about the history of bagpipes.
Excellent story, thank you Bruce. The pipes always stir my blood even as a Scotland living englishman. Also lucky enough to have a Clansman Piper as a friend, Spud the Piper. 😊 Definitely a video on piping. Great idea.
We scattered my grandads ashes at the former RAF Brampton where he served alongside the Polish airforce in exile just prior of the Battle of Britain. The Army were in charge of the site and had given us permission to do so - we did it on November 11th. Just as we did, completely unexpectedly, a piper stepped out and played "Flowers of the Forest". I had managed not to cry until that moment.
I can't wait to watch this. My grandmother used to tell me about the pipers lament (she was an Irish transplant in to a Scottish family), but I've been up editing all night (Ohio, USA). I NOW HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO WAKE UP! lol
Would love a history vid on bagpipes. From what I remember even Henry VIII was mad on bag pipes (I was not present obviously but from a history book lol). Personally I love listening to well played pipes, such an amazing instrument ❤️
Just found your channel and I'm loving it. My dad is Scottish and mother is English and at 33 years old you have lit a fire under my Scottish patriotism with your quiet and impartial stories. I would love a history of the bagpipes video.
Absolutely do a history of bagpipes! There nothing to compare with their beautiful, unique and hauntingly mournful sound. The story of the MacCrimmons also highlights the tragedy of the clearances. Thank you for telling the story.
Bruce the rich history of the bag pipes would be a great cultural opportunity to show one the oldest musical instruments going back to Hittites to the current era.
Waiting at the church for my Mum's funeral, the piper came from a distance, playing a lament. I lost it, of course. This was in Yorkshire, as it happens. The piper also played those smaller pipes - baguettes? Lovely sound. Dawn in Glencoe, the mist, and the pipes. Perhaps 400m away is about right.
@@barhambrummage539 most likely he palyed smallpipes, a bellow blown quieter version of the Great Highland Bagpipe, The French equivalent -a bellow blown abd pretty quiet instrument- is called "musett" as opposed to "baguette" , which is aform of bread, aye. ......but they ryme, so you can get sometimes confused Here's waht a musette looks (and sounds ) like ua-cam.com/video/FfHAcqQsn-g/v-deo.html
As @mario guido tomasone says they were probably the smallpipes. A traditional/ common lament played at funerals or on Remembrance Day is 'The Flowers of the Forest' ua-cam.com/video/KZKzUbIjr30/v-deo.html&ab_channel=EpicBagpipeSound often the piper will walk away / round a corner so the sound fades away towards the end.
A beautiful video my friend. The road & Dunvegan Castle takes you way back, helps to form a picture in your mind. Thank you for telling me a story about your lovely Scotland. A place that has always been in my life thru books & music. Stay FROSTY🌬
Aye Bruce! I would love to know more about the history of the Pipes...Tomorrow my wife and I will be celebrating our 40th wedding aniversary and we will be off to the local Highland Games and Fair in Enumclaw Washington to enjoy my heritage and view the field where the Bag Pipe Bands will march in formation for all to hear! Thank you again for your wonderful teachings about those things I love so much to understand.
I'd love to hear more about the bagpipes. I enjoyed this video. My father was a Mcleod and my mother was a Fraser but when my son was at high school he learnt the pipes from an excellent young piper Mr Jonathan Kalonga. Perhaps we can start new traditions and new piping families.
The sound of the pipes reach right down to the core of my being, it’s hard to find the words to express the feeling. It’s like an inherent response calling across the centuries and an ocean. Please do a history of the bagpipes, and may you be blessed.
A'reyt Bruce. Despite being English I always quite liked the bagpipes. We have our own northern version. My half Irish girlfriend did, to my surprise, think otherwise when I brought her to Scotland on holiday, after we were woken each morning early by the very loud sound of a piper, though he did drone on a bit. Like your well told story, the end result was alas wooly jackets one, noisy rackets nil.
@@eamonnclabby7067 A'reyt Eamonn. Exactly the pipes I was commenting on. From your comment, I decided to Google Cumbrian pipes as I heard of them before too. I reckon you would be interested in the Wikipedia "definition".
@@alansmithee8831 nice to see you out there, Alan, the Chieftains did a great intro on Hergist ridge by Mike Oldfield...transports me too Ireland strangely enough...shades of Carrickfergus..
@@eamonnclabby7067 I grew up with someone who would listen to that sort of stuff on a folk music programme on the then new commercial station in Bradford, which did a late night of it once a week. Mind they were as likely to play their Pink Floyd records, like Ummagumma, with the track "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict". Later I spent a lot of time in a local late night Irish bar with local groups who would try to copy "The Chieftains", " The Bothy Band" and other such groups. The words "lock in" come to mind as the landlord's brother worked in my local pub. A friend from work used to help one of the groups that played there called "Scarlet Heights", who I just looked up and it seems are still out there.
This episode literally brought me to tears. To be honest, I get a wee bit teary-eyed each time a hear a bagpipe, but this was a bit too much. Thank you for your wonderful and riveting stories!
I would very much appreciate the history of bagpipes as told by you. I first heard bagpipes as a young lad and the sound gave me the shivers in a good way. I've been a fan ever since.
Absolutely, bagpipes have always fascinated me. The history of how they came about and how they've enriched our world would be amazing. Thank you you are really an amazing history teller.
i also was born just out of perth but in west australia and my mothers maiden name was kerr sadly she is gone now and dad his ancestors was english coming from edinborough and yes we do love the bagpipes .
There are a few pipers in my family. My grandfather a McLeod from Lewis, my mom, brother, myself and a cousin all in Canada, all played pipes. Brother has played for most of his 70 years, so of course I’d love your bagpipe stories!💕
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yes, Bruce, please do a video on the history of the bagpipes. I've often wondered how the pipes became such a large part of Scottish History. another great video, by the way.
I just started playing my great grandfathers pipes and found this channel. My family came through Nova Scotia. Would love a story on the history of the highland pipes
I grew up loving tartans, pipes and drums, Scottish terriers, and scenes of majestic craggy mountains. Being American, I had no idea of my Scottish heritage until my mom revealed that my maternal grandfather was almost completely of Scottish ancestry. She spent the last 30 years of her life doing the family genealogy, and a lot of my ancestors came to America from Scotland in the early 1600's - not always by choice either. I decided to take a look at pics on my comp of the Highlands, and I sat for hours with tears streaming down my face. I felt like I was looking at HOME. I finally realized why everything Scottish had touched me so much - it's in my genes and my soul. I listen to pipes almost daily on YT channels :) I just discovered your channel, subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your videos, with more to come.
From Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... Yes! I would love to see a history of the pipes, please. I really enjoy the stories you do, from the land of my forefathers, that I will never see. Thank you Rick Reid
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Your stories about Scotland and the Scottish are great. They are interesting and easily followed. Please keep them coming. And, yes, I love the bagpipes.
top stuff really enjoyed this presentation well done sad yet triumphant have marched many miles following the pipes and drums of my battalion . Who could not be moved by tunes of the pipes
Personal comment of Laura Botten: I've heard you ask before about the Scottish diaspora around the world and why we cling to those stories tracing our ancestry back to when we left Scotland. As I watched this video I could feel that Scottish history flowing through my veins. I think collectively we are still passing down those scars of leaving all those monuments, cairns, graves, and pastures in the homeland. I feel this keenly even tracing my ancestry across Canada to Northern BC. I think on the places and graves we left in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Regina, North Battleford. I cling to the 5 generations of memories here in the Bulkley Valley as my ancestors built us a new life, while fondly remembering the old. There are stories in each move that was necessary, for love, livelihood, or to settle a family dispute.
As usual, a wonderful and educational video! You definitely need to make a video of the history of the bagpipes. I believe for most people outside of the UK, bagpipes represent Scotland and everything Scottish more so than the Thistle.
I would love a video about the history of the pipes. I have been trying to play them for a very long time. They always give me the chills when I hear the, even over here in Utah, USA.
Thanks Bruce. As a piper of 23 years, (I also piped for the US Army) I have done a bit of research on the histories of individual pipe tunes from warfare. As I study Gàidhlig and the songs, many are matched to pipe tunes. This is very fascinating study for me. Keep doing what you're doing. Maybe even dig into some of the histories of the tunes (not songs). Slàinte a charaid.
Please make that video Bruce 🙏 … the history of the bagpipes is a topic I would wait up late for. Sad that the sheep replaced the pipers. Part of my ancestors were cleared out of Sutherland, and left for Australia from Brora.
Please do a piece on the pipes. I am a piper, and find the history of tunes we play to be very interesting, and play tons of them for many occasions (laments included). Hector the Hero for instance, is still a favorite. The story of Hector MacDonald is tragic, yet beautiful reading how the citizens loved/honored him. Great video.
Of course you should do a video on the history of the pipes Bruce! I dare anyone not to start tapping their feet when the pipes start sounding
They do stir our blood no doubt about that.
Been playing for 15 years and still gives me chills to play piobairchd (classical bagpipe music) that would have been played during the period of this video. Please make more video with bagpipes
Totally agree...stirs this old Gaels soul..best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E
Absolutely!
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I love the bagpipes. We were piped into the church, and out at the end, for our wedding. I would love an episode on the history of the bagpipes.
my next door neighbours are pipers, i keep telling them i have no problem with them practicing cos i love the pipes but i think they feel i`m just trying to be nice
We also
If you can find nowhere else, find a highway interchange you can pull over and park at. Plenty of space for the GHB to sing out and no one gets bothered.
Large cemeteries also...
I have played bagpipes for some 55 years with a small chunk of that as a Military Piper. My grandmothers maternal lines flow from both Douglas’ and Henderson lines. MacCrimmonds Lament was and is my favourite piobaireachd. We learned the canntaireachd and I understood the depths of the sorrow implied. Thank you for such a beautiful telling of, what to us pipers, is a truly sad story.
My moms side is the Henderson from Glencoe , could we be possibly related?
A video on the history of the pipes would be awesome!! A few years ago several friends were camping up in the mountains of Washington state in the USA. As we sat around the campfire, there came a haunting sound through the forest. I looked across the fire at the only other person there with Scots ancestry, and without a word, we both stood up and walked down the road not believing what we knew we were hearing. About a half-mile down the road was a campsite with a lone piper playing. He was on a long holiday touring the states and had brought his pipes with him. We had been drawn by the sound of the pipes and sat listening to him for an hour or so before we walked back to camp. I doubt that I will ever forget the undeniable draw the sound of the pipes had when we heard them calling through the forest.
Brian, Bagpipes have the same effect on me!
"The pipes, the pipes are calling . . ." I've had people _run_ up to me -- and I am taking up my pipes again... my fingerings are much decayed just now. Good thing I am persnickety!
MacCrimmon's Lament is also a beautiful song - I have sung it many times. My father was a piper, and used to get angry when people talked about "the skirl of the pipes" - to pipers of my father's generation, a skirl was the name of the sound a piper made when his/her fingers didn't cover the holes on the chanter properly and so didn't get a pure note. So when people talked about the skirl of the pipes, to my father that meant they were saying that the piper was making lots of mistakes. Perhaps you could share that in your video about the history of the bagpipes!
Good point well made....
Skirl is also when a bottom hand note like Low A or Low G makes a gurgling sound because the piper is blowing the reed too hard. Your dad was right though. It does show a lack of control of the instrument and "skirl" has always left me feeling the same.
Your father was absolutely right. Also, frying oatmeal and onions together makes a distinctive spluttering squeak - hence the name of the dish: "skirlie"
Yeah, my dad said on a couple of occasions that skirl referred to a mistake or tuning of the pipes, not the playing thereof. it wasn't until his funeral that I discovered that my Grandad 's name was Black, and my ancestry was Scottish.
I did not know that skirling was a reference to mistakes, I thought that's what the proper sound was called, what I don't care for is when the high A has too much screech.
when I was 5 I heard Highland Bagpipes for the first time. I still vividly remember how I felt that I had found Home when I heard them. I have loved bagpipes and Scotland with all my heart and soul ever since. Yes, please do a video about the history of bagpipes.
History of bagpipes - absolutely my good man!
Excellent story, thank you Bruce.
The pipes always stir my blood even as a Scotland living englishman.
Also lucky enough to have a Clansman Piper as a friend, Spud the Piper. 😊
Definitely a video on piping. Great idea.
We scattered my grandads ashes at the former RAF Brampton where he served alongside the Polish airforce in exile just prior of the Battle of Britain. The Army were in charge of the site and had given us permission to do so - we did it on November 11th. Just as we did, completely unexpectedly, a piper stepped out and played "Flowers of the Forest". I had managed not to cry until that moment.
yes, please do a history of bagpipes the sound stirs the blood of anyone with the slightest hint of Scottish Ancestry.
I suppose the sound of bagpipes stirs the souls of Latvians too: ua-cam.com/video/A2r-uspx6LM/v-deo.html
I don't believe it matters the Ancestral decent.
The bagpipes would/should move the spirit within anyones heart.
I can't wait to watch this. My grandmother used to tell me about the pipers lament (she was an Irish transplant in to a Scottish family), but I've been up editing all night (Ohio, USA). I NOW HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO WAKE UP! lol
Would love a history vid on bagpipes. From what I remember even Henry VIII was mad on bag pipes (I was not present obviously but from a history book lol).
Personally I love listening to well played pipes, such an amazing instrument ❤️
Noted
I'd be happy with one of those 8 hour 'fire-side' videos, but it's just bagpipes...
Even the Emperor Nero was reputed to have played them...
Some of the most beautiful music in the world
I'm a McLeod from Australia. but this place fills so familiar to me like iv bin here before maybe in a past life. Yes to the bagpipes history.
Great story Bruce, the pipes resonate in my soul. Interesting story, well told. Happy Saturday and good morning from America!
I, too, love the bagpipes and would greatly enjoy a historical lesson from you. Thanks!
Please do more about, with and on the Pipes. Vielen Dank for this Episode of getting a feel of Piping
Just found your channel and I'm loving it. My dad is Scottish and mother is English and at 33 years old you have lit a fire under my Scottish patriotism with your quiet and impartial stories.
I would love a history of the bagpipes video.
Brilliant
Yes, please make a video of the pipes! Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication!
Hi Bruce. I’d love to hear more about the pipes, please.
Absolutely do a history of bagpipes! There nothing to compare with their beautiful, unique and hauntingly mournful sound. The story of the MacCrimmons also highlights the tragedy of the clearances. Thank you for telling the story.
Wonderful story, Lord Bruce! Super audio and aerials of course! Indeed, everyone wants your bagpipes history!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Bruce the rich history of the bag pipes would be a great cultural opportunity to show one the oldest musical instruments going back to Hittites to the current era.
Thank you for the video. A big Yes Please for a history of the pipes. I love their sound and you always make interesting and entertaining videos.
A great telling of this history. Thank You. And yes, more videos about the pipes, please.
Yes Please. Do a video of history of bagpipes! I'll watch.
I'm an American but bagpipes are hauntingly beautiful. I'd like a history of bagpipes.
Waiting at the church for my Mum's funeral, the piper came from a distance, playing a lament.
I lost it, of course.
This was in Yorkshire, as it happens.
The piper also played those smaller pipes - baguettes?
Lovely sound. Dawn in Glencoe, the mist, and the pipes. Perhaps 400m away is about right.
Are you taking the Mickey? Baguettes are bread sticks!
@@barhambrummage539 most likely he palyed smallpipes, a bellow blown quieter version of the Great Highland Bagpipe, The French equivalent -a bellow blown abd pretty quiet instrument- is called "musett" as opposed to "baguette" , which is aform of bread, aye.
......but they ryme, so you can get sometimes confused
Here's waht a musette looks (and sounds ) like
ua-cam.com/video/FfHAcqQsn-g/v-deo.html
And here's three well knows lads playing the scottish smallpipes
ua-cam.com/video/nRFR3_EYuyU/v-deo.html
Uillean pipes.
As @mario guido tomasone says they were probably the smallpipes.
A traditional/ common lament played at funerals or on Remembrance Day is 'The Flowers of the Forest' ua-cam.com/video/KZKzUbIjr30/v-deo.html&ab_channel=EpicBagpipeSound often the piper will walk away / round a corner so the sound fades away towards the end.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful lessons of Scottish History!
A beautiful video my friend.
The road & Dunvegan Castle takes you way back, helps to form a picture in your mind.
Thank you for telling me a story about your lovely Scotland. A place that has always been in my life thru books & music.
Stay FROSTY🌬
Bruce are the history teacher everyone wanted at school , the energy you bring to the history is infectious and I can’t wait for your bagpipe video 😁
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As a piper in a family of pipers, it is an overwhelming YES to a video on the history of the Piob Mhor, musical instrument and weapon of war!
More on the pipes? Definitely! I love them, some hate them, but they are a fascinating instrument. Please do tell us that story.
yes love the pipes, absolutely would love an episode of the pipes
Love your videos, Bruce. Yes please to a history of bagpipes (and be sure to tell about their later pairing with the drums). Love from Nashville, USA!
Aye Bruce! I would love to know more about the history of the Pipes...Tomorrow my wife and I will be celebrating our 40th wedding aniversary and we will be off to the local Highland Games and Fair in Enumclaw Washington to enjoy my heritage and view the field where the Bag Pipe Bands will march in formation for all to hear! Thank you again for your wonderful teachings about those things I love so much to understand.
A perfect gem of a poignant Scottish story. So beautifully told, the camera work so effective. I’m sharing it with my McLeod cousins.
I don't listen to it regularly but, I've always appreciated the sounds of bagpipges. I'd love to hear the history.
Thanks for sharing; take care 🔥 ❤ 🌙
Love these short documentaries! Passionate, knowledgeable and friendly. Keep them coming!
Thanks
I'd love to hear more about the bagpipes. I enjoyed this video. My father was a Mcleod and my mother was a Fraser but when my son was at high school he learnt the pipes from an excellent young piper Mr Jonathan Kalonga. Perhaps we can start new traditions and new piping families.
Bruce, you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO do a video on the history of the bagpipes!! We all know it will be brilliant!!
The sound of the pipes reach right down to the core of my being, it’s hard to find the words to express the feeling. It’s like an inherent response calling across the centuries and an ocean.
Please do a history of the bagpipes, and may you be blessed.
Love the sound of the pipes. A history of them would be really interesting
Awesome video. I have to admit I choked up at the end. The blood of Scotland runs through my veins, straight to my heart.
This brought tears to my eyes😢. I LOVE bagpipes! Please do more about this subject. 🙏🏴 Gorgeous video. Thank you, Bruce and team.
Thank you! Will do!
This was awesome... and yes it would be interesting to find out about their history..
The sound of the pipes are truly magical 😊 ✌️
Agreed
I love the bagpipes, and would greatly appreciate a history of them!
A history lesson on pipes would be awesome. Especially coming from you, Bruce.
Thanks, a very sad story,
You're welcome
A'reyt Bruce. Despite being English I always quite liked the bagpipes. We have our own northern version. My half Irish girlfriend did, to my surprise, think otherwise when I brought her to Scotland on holiday, after we were woken each morning early by the very loud sound of a piper, though he did drone on a bit.
Like your well told story, the end result was alas wooly jackets one, noisy rackets nil.
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Don't forget the Northumbrian pipes, Alan ,mind you have always been a big fan of the Chieftains and the Uilainn pipes...slainte...E
@@eamonnclabby7067 A'reyt Eamonn. Exactly the pipes I was commenting on.
From your comment, I decided to Google Cumbrian pipes as I heard of them before too. I reckon you would be interested in the Wikipedia "definition".
@@alansmithee8831 nice to see you out there, Alan, the Chieftains did a great intro on Hergist ridge by Mike Oldfield...transports me too Ireland strangely enough...shades of Carrickfergus..
@@eamonnclabby7067 I grew up with someone who would listen to that sort of stuff on a folk music programme on the then new commercial station in Bradford, which did a late night of it once a week. Mind they were as likely to play their Pink Floyd records, like Ummagumma, with the track
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict".
Later I spent a lot of time in a local late night Irish bar with local groups who would try to copy "The Chieftains", " The Bothy Band" and other such groups.
The words "lock in" come to mind as the landlord's brother worked in my local pub. A friend from work used to help one of the groups that played there called "Scarlet Heights", who I just looked up and it seems are still out there.
I would love a history of bagpipes. I love the sound.
Lovely
This episode literally brought me to tears. To be honest, I get a wee bit teary-eyed each time a hear a bagpipe, but this was a bit too much. Thank you for your wonderful and riveting stories!
Absolutely YES! History of Bagpipes would be great!
I would very much appreciate the history of bagpipes as told by you. I first heard bagpipes as a young lad and the sound gave me the shivers in a good way. I've been a fan ever since.
I'm English but I find the bagpipes, and Scottish culture, amazing. Thanks for your Scottish insights, loving them. 🇬🇧🖖💜
Absolutely, bagpipes have always fascinated me. The history of how they came about and how they've enriched our world would be amazing. Thank you you are really an amazing history teller.
Out of all the poignant tales you tell so well. That one brought me to tears. Keep telling the stories.
i also was born just out of perth but in west australia and my mothers maiden name was kerr sadly she is gone now and dad his ancestors was english coming from edinborough and yes we do love the bagpipes .
Excellent video. Thank you! I'm a bagpipe teacher and will share this with my students.
There are a few pipers in my family. My grandfather a McLeod from Lewis, my mom, brother, myself and a cousin all in Canada, all played pipes. Brother has played for most of his 70 years, so of course I’d love your bagpipe stories!💕
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The Faery Pipes would be good place to start a video. Nice one Bruce, another excellent story.
Brilliant tale. As always Bruce, we love it! Have a wee look at The Pipers Grave near Dewar Gill in the Scottish border.
Greetings from the states. Great video as always my man, absolutely fantastic. I truly hope that there are many more to come.
I for one would be most interested in a history of the bagpipes!!
loved this Ep Bruce, please do a bagpipes story. thanks ...
what a sad story.
yes I do love bagpipes. the sound always sends a shiver down my spine. a good one that is.
yes, Bruce, please do a video on the history of the bagpipes. I've often wondered how the pipes became such a large part of Scottish History. another great video, by the way.
I just started playing my great grandfathers pipes and found this channel. My family came through Nova Scotia. Would love a story on the history of the highland pipes
That is sad indeed. I love the pipes and would appreciate a video of the history
Love these, one of the best things on UA-cam.
Wow, thanks!
I grew up loving tartans, pipes and drums, Scottish terriers, and scenes of majestic craggy mountains. Being American, I had no idea of my Scottish heritage until my mom revealed that my maternal grandfather was almost completely of Scottish ancestry. She spent the last 30 years of her life doing the family genealogy, and a lot of my ancestors came to America from Scotland in the early 1600's - not always by choice either. I decided to take a look at pics on my comp of the Highlands, and I sat for hours with tears streaming down my face. I felt like I was looking at HOME. I finally realized why everything Scottish had touched me so much - it's in my genes and my soul. I listen to pipes almost daily on YT channels :) I just discovered your channel, subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your videos, with more to come.
I love the sound of bagpipes. They speak to my soul. Would love a lesson on the history of the bagpipes.
From Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... Yes! I would love to see a history of the pipes, please.
I really enjoy the stories you do, from the land of my forefathers, that I will never see.
Thank you
Rick Reid
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Your stories about Scotland and the Scottish are great. They are interesting and easily followed. Please keep them coming. And, yes, I love the bagpipes.
top stuff really enjoyed this presentation well done sad yet triumphant have marched many miles following the pipes and drums of my battalion . Who could not be moved by tunes of the pipes
Thank you for your service, Peter..
Personal comment of Laura Botten: I've heard you ask before about the Scottish diaspora around the world and why we cling to those stories tracing our ancestry back to when we left Scotland. As I watched this video I could feel that Scottish history flowing through my veins. I think collectively we are still passing down those scars of leaving all those monuments, cairns, graves, and pastures in the homeland. I feel this keenly even tracing my ancestry across Canada to Northern BC. I think on the places and graves we left in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Regina, North Battleford. I cling to the 5 generations of memories here in the Bulkley Valley as my ancestors built us a new life, while fondly remembering the old. There are stories in each move that was necessary, for love, livelihood, or to settle a family dispute.
Thank you. Much enjoyed and appreciated.
Bagpipes history 👍
Love anything to do with music lol!😊💚🍀
Yes please on the pipes video!
This is a sad,, sad subject, and very well told...
I will add my vote for a video of a history o piping
"Lament for Iain Ruaidh" is my favorite, and is to be played as I am lowered in the grave.
As usual, a wonderful and educational video! You definitely need to make a video of the history of the bagpipes. I believe for most people outside of the UK, bagpipes represent Scotland and everything Scottish more so than the Thistle.
I would love a video about the history of the pipes. I have been trying to play them for a very long time. They always give me the chills when I hear the, even over here in Utah, USA.
I love the pipes and, of course, do that video on the bagpipes! This is one Texas who would rather hear the pipes than the guitar.
A video on the history of the pipes? Yes, please.
Thanks Bruce. As a piper of 23 years, (I also piped for the US Army) I have done a bit of research on the histories of individual pipe tunes from warfare. As I study Gàidhlig and the songs, many are matched to pipe tunes. This is very fascinating study for me. Keep doing what you're doing. Maybe even dig into some of the histories of the tunes (not songs). Slàinte a charaid.
History of pipes? Yes please! 🏴🤩
Please make that video Bruce 🙏 … the history of the bagpipes is a topic I would wait up late for. Sad that the sheep replaced the pipers. Part of my ancestors were cleared out of Sutherland, and left for Australia from Brora.
Yes please!
Lots of pipers here in Orlando, Florida. You are our go to guy on Scottish history.
Yes a video on the history of the pipes would be fantastic! Absolutely love the pipes!
Yes please! History of bagpipes!
I always get a shiver down my spine every time I hear the bagpipes would love to hear more about the bagpipes
History brought to life with a quirkily good-humoured narrative! Many thanks to you, Bruce Fummey!
Glad you enjoyed it
A vote for a video of bagpipes, great video
Another Aye for the history of the pipes - from New Zealand
Please do a piece on the pipes. I am a piper, and find the history of tunes we play to be very interesting, and play tons of them for many occasions (laments included).
Hector the Hero for instance, is still a favorite. The story of Hector MacDonald is tragic, yet beautiful reading how the citizens loved/honored him.
Great video.
Yes Bruce, please make us a video on the pipes. Many thanks.