Music for Canon Battles
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To my knowledge, the Pipes were the first musical instrument to be designated as "A Weapon of Warfare." This was back during the Proscription Acts following Culloden.
However, that has all gotten ironed out and the Pipes have long since led courageous men and more recently women to battle from the UK and Her Commonwealth Nations.
Gus
However, that has all gotten ironed out and the Pipes have long since led courageous men and more recently women to battle from the UK and Her Commonwealth Nations.
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H.W.McBride's 'A Rifleman Went to War' spent a couple of stirring pages describing the Argyles, I think it was, being piped into the hell of the Somme. The pipers lead them in and the 'men in dresses' did their duty. McBride echoed Kipling's sentiment
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Pipers are paid by members of the Mess at special functions and thoroughly enjoyed by most, if not all members while one is in one's dress uniform and getting severely drunk by the numbers. HOWEVER, the following morning at reveille, the Pipers should REALLY be paid NOT to play.
On my first tour on Okinawa in 1972-3, Armed Forces radio got the idea to play "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" by the Anderson Sisters at Reveille, to commemorate the anniversary of the landings on and battle for Okinawa. This of course was at 0530 in the morning. They only planned on doing it for one or a few days, BUT it was so popular by all the U.S. Armed Forces stationed there, they continued to do it for months. Many of us actually learned to subconsciously wake up shortly before Reveille so we could at least HEAR western women singing each morning.
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Personally, I like the pipes, if properly played with an appropriate choice of tune. I have heard them badly played, and that's a different tune.... 
I have also noticed that, on St. Andrew's day, they pipe-in the haggis, but the whiskey often precedes it.
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I have also noticed that, on St. Andrew's day, they pipe-in the haggis, but the whiskey often precedes it.
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Personally, I like the pipes, if properly played with an appropriate choice of tune. I have heard them badly played, and that's a different tune....
I have also noticed that, on St. Andrew's day, they pipe-in the haggis, but the whiskey often precedes it.
mhb - MIke
Though I didn't grow up with the Pipes, I have always LOVED hearing them played well. There is just something about the Pipes that stirs the blood even to this day.
Gus
