Anyone here a sucker for a Scottish pipe band?

Warrigal

Warrigal

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I cannot get enough of them.

75K views · 3.8K reactions | Drum Majors lead the massed pipe bands at Gordon Castle Estate as they march into the Games field for their morning parade during the 2023 Gordon Castle Highland Games. The bands are playing the popular traditional tunes "Farewell to the Creeks" and "Glendaruel Highlanders" and this great event returns to the grounds of Gordon Castle at Fochabers in Moray, Scotland, on Sunday 19th May 2024. The leading Drum Major is Derek Dean with Huntly and District Pipe Band, followed by Mike Morgan with Strathisla Pipe Band, Bruce Crowe with Banff Castle Pipe Band and Fraser Dyer with Aberlour Community and District Pipe Band. The remaining five bands taking part were the Gordon Highlanders Association Drums and Pipes, Dufftown and District Pipe Band, RAF Lossiemouth Pipes and Drums, Gordonstoun Pipe Band and Portsoy Pipe Band. #scotland #highlandgames #marchingband #massedbands #gordoncastle | Scotland's Pipe Bands
 

The only time I've heard bagpipes in real time was at a funeral 5 years ago. The musician played a farewell at the end of the funeral, and while playing walked down the isle from the casket, out the door and down the street where the sound faded to zero. I guess he was simulating walking away with the dead man's soul to the great unknown. But where I heard him finally fade away was in front of an auto insurance sales office. By the time we left the ceremony, he was nowhere in sight.
 

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