Massed Pipes and Drums of the Scottish highlands gather in Deeside for first parade of 2018 

I am a Scot of 89 years and when I hear the bands play I have an apple sized lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. "You can take a Scot out of Scotland, but you will never take Scotland out of the Scot.

This kind of culture must be charisdhed forever. The sound of bagpipes together with the perfect drums always gives me goosebumps

everyone is a little irish on st. patricks day. except the scottish. we're still scottish.

I am ninety years and so proud of my heritage, every time I hear the pipes play my chest almost burst with pride. If you want to experience real pride. March into battle with a piper. You feel as though you could go through a brick wall such is the feeling.

As Chuck Finlay so rightly said, this music isn't just for the Scots,..... it's their gift to the world. 😍

I have loved reading the comments from folk from all over the world in support of Scotland and of the music, whenever I hear the bagpipes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and my step my big hoofs start to tap away................this music isn’t just for Scots.........it’s our gift to the world and again I thank you all for the amazing comments. God bless you all from Scotland.

Nothing stirs the blood of my ancestors that runs through my veins like the pipes! Makes my heart sing! God bless you all and God bless Scotland!

How can you not love the bagpipes, they go straight into your soul

Long life to Scotland!!! It's not only the music. Is everything. Everything is charming in the marvellous Scotland

I'm a 51 year old Dutch girl with no ties to Scotland whatsoever, but these pipes make me cry in a good way. It feels like home. And it's too long ago that I felt that like that. Thank you for the upload.

A yank of Scots descent, but I was 11 before I ever heard the pipes. It set a fire in my blood, and I *ran* to find the source of that glorious sound. It had stopped by the time I got there so I went door to door, asking if anyone knew -- and it turned out it was "Auntie" Ruth McLeod (from Lewis no less!) who was feeling homesick, and had put a record on. To this day, the sound of the pipes sets a fire in my soul.

I have no known connection to Scotland, but this video makes me homesick for a place I've never known. It's beautiful!

I don't know how much of my DNA is from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, or England but I feel this music in my bones. It's like something in my blood is calling me home...

I’m a Scottish blooded Australian and the pipes stir something deep down in my soul 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇦🇺

I had the honor to serve in Afghanistan with our mated fromScotland, it was an honor, good lads. From the U.S.

I dont let the fact that I'm not Scottish one bit stop me from enjoying the hell out of this, so badass!

Good to see real culture still alive in the world. God bless Scotland!

Home of my people. The Scottish Highlands. We are Warriors, we are poets, we are proud and we are strong. The Highlands are a tough and rugged place to live, but it has a majestic beauty , a land with a rock hard foundation, and mountains to soar over the clouds.

i was born a southerner but the Bagpipes always moves me very deeply amazing thank you people of Scotland

To me, there is nothing, I think, more moving than the skirling of the pipes and the banging of the drums! I was listening, spirit roused and heart filled with feeling ... and then these braw lads & lassies broke into 'Scotland the Brave," and I broke into sobs .... I'm a big fan of Highland music, but there's something very special about this gathering. Thank you so much for sharing - I shall play it again & again.

My sincerest thanks from the Blue Ridge of Virginia! My paternal ancestors reach back to St. Tears, Scotland. The clan Robinson, a sect of Clan Gunn. The pipes have always stirred my soul! I hope that one day, I can stand on the ground of my ancestors and talk to my relatives that remained in Scotland! A short story about bagpipes. My wife and I bought a small plot of land when my son was two. We put a small house on it. One afternoon shortly after moving in, I was mowing the yard and clouds starting moving in. Then I heard the pipes. At first, they were barely audible but after five min, I could hear them clearly over the lawn mower. My wife walked out of the house and asked if I heard them? I asked her, “You heard them too?” She had. I cut the mower off and walked up the road to see if I could tell where the pipes were coming from. We lived in the country and houses weren’t real close. I didn’t walk very far past my property before I couldn’t hear the pipes anymore. I walked back to my house and as I reached my driveway, I could hear them once more. Then the wind started to pick up. My wife and son were outside listening to the pipes. I looked up and the clouds had turned black and were swirling slowly. I grabbed my wife and son and ran inside. We could hear the pipes over the wind, rain and hail. The storm passed quickly and so did the pipes. We found out that just over the hill where there was a small lake, a tornado had touched down! I know it sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. More incredibly, over the ten years we lived there, three other very bad storms were predated with the pipes. The difference was that the next time I heard them, I made sure the dog, wife and kids were in the house first! We’re in the Blue Ridge Mountains, so we get storms, but we only heard the pipes before the worst. I asked all my neighbors if they played the pipes but none did. I asked if they played recordings and all said no. I shared my experiences and they all acted like I was crazy, so I didn’t bring it up again. But since moving from that land, I’ve never experienced the warnings again. To this day, we look back at our time there as the best time of our lives. We were truly blessed!

Long live Scotland from Poland! I absolutely love the bagpipes! Respect from Poland❤️

I have always loved hearing the bagpipes. My father-in-law was 100% Scottish and when the different bagpipe groups came to San Diego to perform, he always invited me and my husband to see the performance with him and mum because we were the only other ones in the family that loved the pipes. In fact Pop caught me crying and when I looked up at him, he was too! It was so stirring.

How much poorer would we be with out the skirlling of the pipes and drums?? Alba gu brath

In these difficult times, I like honor and patriotism. Greetings to my Scottish friends from Hamburg Germany !

Love from Detroit Michigan gives me chills in my Scottish blood.

Imagine being a soldier from an invading army when suddenly you hear those pipes and drums in the distance getting closer and closer.

I love the sound of the bagpipes and drums I never get tired of hearing it.

Why so many dislikes? Just kindly leave with your negativity.

Bags and drums make my fire burn hottt!!! Especially with this level of excellence. Well done boys!

Wish this group would come to Glasgow Kentucky USA to the Highland games!

Being from the US, I take great pride in my heritage! I've never had the chance to visit Scotland, but when I close my eyes and listen to this beautiful music, I can feel a connection. I know many people who don't care for their genealogy, but I'm proud to have the name Carmichael!

Damn, really Scotland, this is so awesome and impressive ! I would scared the hell out of me hearing theses songs becoming closer from my position in close combat. Respect from France !

Is it weird that this made me cry? My heritage can be traced back to on of the first Celtic clans cuz my grandmother is from Scotland but now we are in Canada.

Wir waren vor 2 Jahren in Schottland und hatten zwei unvergessliche Wochen Urlaub, wir lieben das Land die Kultur und die Menschen, wir wurden immer positiv aufgenommen obwohl unser Englisch nicht so gut ist und dennoch wurden wir nicht abgewiesen, tolle Menschen tolles Land 😍 toller Whiskey 🥃wir kommen sehr gerne wieder. Best regards from Saxony Dresden 😘

I have loved the bagpipes since I was a child!!! They just pull at me and almost make me want to cry! I have a special love for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 also! I believe because my father has always told me we have Scottish blood. I’m an American from Texas! God Bless you Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and God Bless America!🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My great uncle was buried with his bagpipes in Canada. He moved there from Scotland. I barely remember him in the 1950's playing his pipes. I was so intrigued and have loved the music all my life. Proud to have Scottish blood running through my veins! I'm from the Clan Anderson and also related to the Ingrams, Walkers, McDonalds, and Boynes. Probably a few more as well. Thank you so much for this music.

I grew up on this stuff my great grandfather came from Scotland to Canada and settled there. It still makes my hair stand on end. when I hear the pipes . I belong to the Hannah Clan, My parents came to the USA in the late fourties I was born American before they were naturalized.

My older brother took me to see the black watch in downtown New Orleans when I was about 10 years old. It has been in my blood ever since. Nothing like it. Very very proud of my Scottish and Irish ancestry. Although born in the US I feel very akin to Scotland and Ireland. Every time I hear the pipe and drum I feel a part of me calling. Long live Scotland. Long live Ireland. Keep playing that lovely music!

These are my people, and I love them each and everyone more than I can say. . Go ahead and piss them off and see what happens to you. The world will be a smoking char, but there will still be men who walk out of the smoke and dust and goo, good men Scottish, Irish, American walking across the char playing the pipes and cleaning up the mess and leaning hard into the fray.

No idea why this makes me homesick to the point that my heart aches and the tears spill from my eyes. Thank you for sharing this!

Never get tired of listening to the pipes....

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE.

Oh this makes me cry! I always want to run along beside a pipe band. Bit embarrassing, as I am 80!

Such beautiful music and rich culture. It makes me want to travel to Scotland and learn more about my Clan Keith ancestry, and experience these awesome pipes and drums for myself!

God bless Scotland and the Scottish people

I see lot's of MacClellean in here! With respect to all- Greetings from SW USA!

It is so beautiful, that I can look at it endlessly :)) Hello from St.Petersburg ;)

I spent 2 months in Edinburgh during the Covid 19 lockdown, and this music brings tears to my eyes even though I'm not Scottish. Must be because I felt so welcome in these trying times

Of Scottish decent here in America and proud of my heritage. Love those deep soul feelings every time I hear bagpipes. Thanks

Hark when the night is falling, Hear! hear the pipes are calling, Loudly and proudly calling, Down thro' the glen. There where the hills are sleeping, Now feel the blood a-leaping, High as the spirits of the old Highland men.

I knew a real Scottish gentleman some years ago who could play the pipes. I refer to him as a gentleman as he could play the pipes,but didn't.

Greetings from the US, had to get my pipe-and-drum fix and came across this--it's awesome. My family is half German, half Scotch-Irish, and I think the commenter that mentioned a "bagpipe" gene may be right, LOL, as this just gets my blood racing when I hear it. Question: what is that large black monument to the right of the screen? And thank you for posting this, loved it!

I have loved this music since I was a child. Scotland has such wonderful traditions.

This was very enjoyable. A foggy brisk morning with the sound of the pipes coming down the mountainside. Very beautiful. God bless !

Oh my God, I cried loads. Loved this stuff since I was a wee boy.

Love you Scotland, regards Belgium. :)

This is with respect from Germany!!! Gogogo for the scottish!!! :-)

When i hear the Scots bagpipes i return back in 1963 when young boy 17 years old i tried to find my luck travelling 5 days from Greece to Scotland ,working in Govan and elsewhere North East England while studying.That music of the Scots bagpipes makes to glow my heart !!!!!❤❤❤❤

There is a power in this music that I can't explain. Wonderful parade!

Fell in love with Scotland. I visited Edinburgh and the highlands last month, after that I justo want to go back and stay there for a couple of years or at least a few months Greetings from Mexico

Attention foward charge ! With this melody I am ready to die! Not even Scottish but German ;) Greetings!

Nothing stirs me blood in pride for the clans I hale from , MacDonald , Macphairlane , Lenox and the Royal House of Stuart like the playing of bagpipes and drums

Imagine being british in like 1406 and hearing 600 drummers and pipers charging at you while the ground is shaking.

Years ago A guy from the Black Watch used to sit on top of a bomb shelter and play the Pipes every evening. That memory has never left me. Even on an occasion in a supermarket two pipes and a drummer marched through the place. The tears welled up in my eyes as the memory flooded back. I am not a Scott, what is it about Bagpipes and drums????:

Greetings from the Nicholson Pipes and Drums of Westminster, California.

With respect from USA !

Beautiful sounds in a beautiful place.

I do not know why I associate this with, they are about to kick your arse if you step out of line, but it seems fitting. It is beautiful but ever so slightly intimidating.

Probably .01% Irish American but have always had a love for Scottish pipes. As a kid my dad always painted this picture of a foggy morning on a battlefield... can you imagine hearing such a sound coming your way in that fog? Gives me chills everytime I hear pipes and drums. Keep your heritage alive for the rest of the world... We love it!

Growing up in NZ The Scottish Bands Marching uplifted me as A child I was in Love

Outstanding!!! I love how people of all ages participate! Proud of my partial Scottish heritage!

Real Men wear Kilts 😊🤗 All the Best for such a touching and powerful display and I was born at the foothills of Stirling Castle and my Maiden name was Duncan Ty again ! Freedom

The hair on the back of my neck is standing up, I have a lump in my throat and a wee tear in the corner of my eye. I have never been to Scotland, but half my blood is Scottish. My grandfather was a piper from WWI and knocked the local pipe band into shape when he arrived here in NZ.

I love that first note... where they start squeezing the bag... The drones start to wail... They all converge and find the first note. It's enough to give ya chills. Then, the drums come in sharp as a knife... Lifting your pulse, setting your foot tapping.

it brought tears and lots of memories to my from my child days..love the bag pipes..

Spring reawakens the Earth the pipes and drums of the Scotts reawaken the soul.

A big yes from me! “Can you no hear the pipes laddie” as my old Dad use to say to me.

The PandD have two effects on me either I want to cry or go to war. I'm 70 today so I'll probably get all breary eyed.

I am proud to call myself Scottish, even though I am only half.... my dad's side (Laird surname) has some impressive lineage. I always loved Gaelic culture and the bagpipes make me feel in a trance. My favorite color is blue. I love unicorns... Maybe these things have to do with me being Scottish and I didn't even know it, thinking I was Irish always.

Highland pipes and drums get me every time. Makes the heart pound and the soul soar high. Fabulous.

wow amazing Scotland the brave and I am a Pommie ex Brit from England 1989

Many thanks for this beautiful tunes from Germany ... it is remarkable that the coulors of the kilts are the same as the woods in the background ... :-)

The Scots absolutely rock 😘❤️❤️❤️

I love this so much. I can feel it in my Scottish blood. I hope to someday see something like this in person, I can only image what all that droning in the air must feel like!

FANTASTIC! There's nothing like the sound of the Pipes and Drums, always brings a tear to my eyes. God bless you all.

I’m an American with Polish ancestry but I should’ve been Scottish. Somebody tell me why I love pipes and drums. I can’t avoid smiling from ear to ear and getting goosebumps followed by tears in my eyes

God Bless Scotland forever

It is Dec 31, 2019, and I am in my living room listening to 'home'!! I was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland where I stayed with my granny. I've been in America since 1962. Last time back was 1997-98 but I could no longer live there. No longer understood the money or the metric system. So I came back here to the coast of Oregon where I have the sea at my back door. I'm thinking of the times my grandparent and I with an aunt and uncle went to the St /Margarets Ballroom and brought the /Near In and went First Footing on the way home. The world has changed since then and a friend said First Footing is hardly done anymore. Happy New Year and good health in 2020!! And lang mae yer lum reek!!

My ancestors are from Scotland England Germany and was born in South Africa...traditions are what keeps our Core of Life together...there’s no apologies for who my ancestors are and who I am today...!!!

I close my eyes and listen, and I can see Colonel Cameron leading the 92nd forward at Quatre Bras. Brilliant.

Speaking as a person with family ancestors who fought and died along side of William Wallace, I can't listen to drum and pipes like this without my heart overwhelmed, tears of fire flowing out of my eyes and goosebumps all over. Love you Scots!

Just tears in my eyes..greetings from Britany 🍻

Wow! That is amazing. How do the bagpipes keep time so well? I can't imagine they can hear the drums they are so loud. Luther Peebles

Uniq and powerful in spiritual realm! Triumph of life and real man kind🦅

Good music.of scotland.gerrycortes.from Cuernavaca Møreløs Mexicø city

I can never get over it.... I'm mainly English but am a quarter Scot via my Grandmother on my dads side and it always stirs me to hear the bagpipes ... as it happened my grandfather on dads side was also boarders (reavers of old) so on that side we were a bit of a bad lot siding with whomever it was politic at the time ... my mum was straight north west English ... put is all together though with this music and I go wobbly in the heart... thanks loved it

Respect, from Brasil.

The sound of the pipes was an effective motivator for the infantry . My Colonel told me of being pinned down by the Greek leftist on a rocky shore . The piper sprang to his feet and advanced playing the Black Bear whereupon the marines surged forward clearing the enemy .

Scotts served with great bravery in our dear fallen Confederacy and are the backbone of Southern freedom loving mountain people. Deo Vindice!