Thank you Matthew for wearing all the Regalia and giving my father the funeral he deserved.”īritain's South East Bagpiper has been playing the Great Highland Bagpipes since he was 10 years old and through-out his piping career he has played as an individual solo performer at multiple events across a wide range of platforms. Matthews piping was so moving, it was the ‘icing on the cake’ with a cherry on top! He even played ‘Major Bobby’ in honour of my Dad. He has a repertoire fit for any occasion and I can not thank him enough for making my fathers funeral perfect in how he would have wanted it.
Matthew made sure he was on time for the event and he played the tunes I wanted. There are no words to describe how moving it was as my father had a guard of honour at the crematorium gates and with the bagpipes playing - it was like a state funeral. I wondered how the day would go due to Covid restrictions but Matthew’s piping just gave my father the best ‘send off’ he could have wished for. “Communication with Matthew was excellent in giving confidence for the day ahead. You’re not incorrect nor is there anything to amend.Matthews piping was so moving, it was the ‘icing on the cake’ with a cherry on t.ĥ stars - Britains South East Bagpiper are Highly RecommendedĬarole C booked Britains South East Bagpiper for their event in London It’s located in Edinburgh, it is a world-wide sought-out school, it belongs to &/or is operated by whomever …. Is it an English school - well, that would require a closer look as to who (Scotland or England) actually started, owns, operates said-school. British includes the people of the British Isles … which obviously includes Scotland. A common misunderstanding - which I too had until my first trip to Scotland - is that British means English. I’m well aware of this institution - along with the museum of piping and the piping college in Glasgow - having started piping and been a part of the community since the late 1980s. “One of the replies challenged the ‘British’ part of the military piping school. In July 2019, I received this comment from a man writing about WWI pipers: Thank you for pointing out that error to me, David. He took part in the assault on High Wood in July 1916. The last bagpipe player survivor from World War I was Harry Lunan of the 5th Gordon Highlanders.
Some of the more famous bagpipe rallying tunes, The Battle of the Somme and The Bloody Fields of Flanders were written in the trenches on site.Īstonishing. They received an extra penny a day to play their pipes.įor the most part, the bagpipes skirled out regimental tunes to get the men moving, tunes such as Highland Laddie, Bluebonnets Over the Border, and the Minstrel Boy. Enemy fire mowed them down just as effectively as they killed advancing troops.Ħ00 pipers were wounded, 500 bagpipe players died while rallying the troops into battle. The bagpipe players carried no cutting devices when they encountered barbed wire.
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They stood in full view of the German lines playing their instrument, and marched through “no-man’s land” without any ammunition but their sound. The pipers played the clarion call to arms to the men of the British Expeditionary Forces and thus were usually the first ones “over the top.” (Wikimedia Commons) Bagpipes played an important role for the British army during World War I.Ģ500 bagpipe players were in the trenches with their men.
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