Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the Scottish bagpipes and drums music of the Police Scotland Pipe Band on visit to Fife. The band wears Carnegie of Fife tartan kilts. The band was established in September 2007 as the Fife Constabulary Pipe Band, and was placed in the senior grade by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association in February the following year. Their first competition, at the Dunbar Highland Games in May 2008, saw them awarded first prize. The first Pipe Major was James Murray, with Andrew Mathieson starting as Pipe Sergeant, both having left Grade 1 band Shotts and Dykehead. When James Murray announced he was to emigrate to Australia, Mathieson took over as Pipe Major. Douglas Murray became Pipe Major in July 2013. The drum corps of a pipe band consists of a section of drummers playing Highland snare drums and the bass section. In the early days of pipe bands, rope tension snare drums were common, but as the technology evolved, so did the music. Pipe band drummers now play on drums with very tight, knitted kevlar heads, designed for maximum tension to create a very crisp and strident sound. Due to technological innovations and changing aesthetics, this crispness has become an integral part of the pipe band sound. Since today's drum is so facile as a result of its design, players are often able to execute extremely complicated and technically demanding rudimentary patterns. The surname Carnegie was first found in Angus, Gaelic: Aonghas, part of the Tayside region of northeastern Scotland, and present day Council Area of Angus, formerly known as Forfar or Forfarshire, where there was recorded a family of great antiquity seated at Carnegie in the parish of Carmyllis in that shire. Confirmation of the grant of lands of Cairynegy was made by King David of Scotland in 1358 to then Chief of the Clan John Carnegie. He was descended from Jocelyn of Balinhard who was the progenitor of the family. Carnegie has been written Carnegie, Carnechie, Carnegey, Carnagie, Carnagee and many more. Mrs. Carnegie, a Scottish settler travelled from Greenock listed with a servant aboard the ship Philip Laing arriving in Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 15th April 1848; David Carnegie, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; William Carnegie, arrived in Pennsylvania, America, in 1848; John Carnegie, aged 19, arrived in New York, America, in 1869. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission. View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.
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Installment Five The parade of Scotties through the town of Baileys Harbor is always a rally highlight. Clan Donald arrived at Scottie Headquarters to signal it was time. We enjoyed a medley of s…
On Saturday, Newport’s Ancient Order of Hibernians Pipes and Drums Band will step out onto Broadway for what might be their most anticipated gig of the year. Formed in 2006, the band is a perennial highlight for the thousands of visitors who flock to the city for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Now in its tenth year, the group […]
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Members of the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band from St. Paul performed during the Minnesota Scottish Fair held 5/19/12 at the Dakota County Fairgrounds. The one day festival featured everything Scottish...
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New Ross and District Pipe Band won further All Ireland honours when they competed at the 70th All Ireland Pipe Band Championships held in Omagh, County Tyrone.
Pipe band from Scotland ends country’s recent hoodoo in the world championships, as Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia claimed the crown in Glasgow to halt dry spell stretching back to 2005
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We are a Scottish pipe band based in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Our blog will be updated regularly with notices of our upcoming performances along with pictures from the events. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
We are a Scottish pipe band based in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Our blog will be updated regularly with notices of our upcoming performances along with pictures from the events. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
We are a Scottish pipe band based in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Our blog will be updated regularly with notices of our upcoming performances along with pictures from the events. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Things seen at the World Pipe Bands Championship 2015, Glasgow Green.
Between performances.
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Copper Pipe Glockenspiel: Build a great-sounding glockenspiel out of copper pipes! The pipes, when correctly mounted, have a lovely bell-like tone. This glockenspiel (a glockenspiel is like a xylophone, but with metal slats or tubes) is based on a project in this…
We are a Scottish pipe band based in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Our blog will be updated regularly with notices of our upcoming performances along with pictures from the events. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
