What is the earliest record of Pipes being used in a battle and a clue here it was not the scots !
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3209883.ece
Author and former Green Jacket Andy McNab remains a lifelong admirer of the pipes. "As a young soldier, I often heard the stories of Scottish infantrymen who became so pumped up on adrenaline after hearing the sounds of their pipes and drums during an attack, they wouldn't actually realise they were dead for 20 yards after they had been shot," he said, paying tribute to the guardsmen who he said march with "a pipe in one hand a rifle in the other.".
2007-11-30 13:12:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
http://www.doyle.com.au/great_irish_warpipe.htm
another clue its in the text of this article.
The Piper shown is from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, does anybody have a colour photo of a Skins Piper or in fact of the other two Irish Regiments an Ulster Rifles or Royal Irish Fusilier Piper, I can only find black and white photos does anybody know where one can find colour of all three?
2007-11-30 13:14:20 · update #1
Greenman,. I read an article about the US 7th Cavalry and they have Pipe Bands
2007-11-30 13:18:20 · update #2
Greenman check this out
http://www.us7thcavalry.com/legend.htm
2007-11-30 13:22:20 · update #3
feasgar math, to upthcrek, glad to have you answering.
2007-11-30 13:27:48 · update #4
Ciamar a tha thu?...... Piob are Boidheach !
How are you? Pipes are Beautiful ! For those who don't know Gaelic.
Vet-USAF
Mi neach-ionnsachaidh Gaidhlig. Love my heritage of Scott-Irish, German, Cherokee but I'm Proud to be a American
2007-11-30 13:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by ฉันรักเบ้า 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think pipes must have been the first "shock and awe."
Those dudes can carry forever. The enemy would have heard them coming long before they saw the Scots. And the sound would get louder and louder as they approached. You only need a few pipes to make that impression... think of fifty or a hundred. Then came the fighters. I can imagine the enemy wondering if perhaps where he was might not be the most prudent place to be.
And, as has been suggested, the Scots must have been pumped too.
We have an annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in our small town. There is a Pipe and Drum corps that shows up every year. The only reason I go. They form up and march to their venue. They used to have people clearing the crowd in front of them. Not any more. People hear them coming and move.
2007-11-30 13:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had heard it was the Romans who first used the pipes. They left some behind in Britannia where they became the North Umberland Pipes.
But, even though I'm not Scots, my skin does tingle when I hear the skirl of "Scotland The Brave". So, I'm thinking it might even be some deep genetic memory come down from my Viking ancestors. LOL!
2007-11-30 15:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh confident! i like Auld Lang Syne, Will Ye circulate Lassie circulate and The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond incredibly. no longer something fairly like a brilliant rugged good-looking Scotsman in a kilt enjoying the bagpipes!
2016-10-18 10:41:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paddy, everyone knows that the noise the Irish produce and claim as music is nothing to the beauty of the tones coming from a scot bagpiper.
2007-11-30 13:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The bagpipes were deffinately the "Ride of the Valkeries" of their day.
I wish the U.S. Army adopted there use in ceremonies when it was young, bu twe have our own customs.
2007-11-30 13:15:56 · answer #6 · answered by Greenman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
problematic step. check out using yahoo. just that may help!
2015-03-23 18:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by beatrice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋