Mist-Covered Mountains, Scots Guards 1950

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Beautiful classic tune with a soaring tonality on pipes not heard in the minor key versions of other instruments. Played at JFK graveside and Queen Mother's funeral. From the stereo vinyl album "Scots Guards Pipes and Drums - Marches," one of the only recordings I know much before the mid to late 60's with excellent rock-steady tuning and light, intricate playing by a large band. Uses the old melodic style drumming from before the Alex Duthart era, pipe pitch much lower than today. You have to listen through online compression, heavily played vinyl and 50's hi-fi-stereo engineering, but it's a very powerful band sound. Mostly march-strathspey-reel-6/8 and street- & slow march sets. The recording was still being sold into the 1970's but I've never seen a CD print.

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@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

This recording is some serious, rare history. It needs to go forward.

@seancorrigan 2 года назад

Played at the Queens funeral today 😢😢😢

@iwrotethis9290 2 года назад

@@seancorrigan yeah, after the Queen funeral this probably will go forward

@seancorrigan 2 года назад

@@iwrotethis9290 this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UnYutVX6FIY.html

@coppershark1973 2 года назад

This piece hit my heart hard as the gun carriage carried the dead Queen. The massed band was extraordinary.

@nstheboss 2 года назад

The moment the pipes and drums started, I just felt a huge wave of goosebumps and emotion. An amazing performance by all involved, they did their/our Queen proud 👏

@harrysmith12345 2 года назад

Was an unbelievable day!! The bagpipes did me also.

@mohamedabdulle6529 Год назад

Same scene of 1936 George V funeral is on RU-vid with the bagpipes

@andrewdavies5103 Год назад

Mass pipes & drums are amazing

@markwestwood9730 8 месяцев назад

Proud to be 🇬🇧

@codeslacker77 2 года назад

Queen Elizabeth brought me here. Beautiful and awe-inspiring piece, May Her Majesty rest in peace. P/S: definitely not Darude sandstorm

@69TripHammer Год назад

My son serves in the Royal Tank Regiment. This tune inspired him to become a piper. He is from Dorset and is currently up in Edinburgh learning to play..

@dutchbikerbloke Год назад

Great to hear that. Good luck to him.

@mancpaul01 2 года назад

This was played as the Queens funeral commenced. And for the first time since her death I was moved to tears.

@seancorrigan 2 года назад

I’ve cried practically every day due to this tune, Skye Boat Song and The Funeral March 😢😢😢

@bottletree33 2 года назад

Yeah I had a lump in my throat also. Very moving

@blackjackmaestro6505 2 года назад

Me too pal, bagpipes are absolutely beautiful and sad at the same time

@seancorrigan 2 года назад

@@blackjackmaestro6505 They’re haunting, mate. 😞😞😞

@twometerpeter 2 года назад

What else did the pipe band play for the funeral? It seemed to be a few songs.

@DaviLourencoORG 6 месяцев назад

Listening to this beautiful song, on March 30, 2024, exactly 22 years after the death of the Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons.

@Dayepipes 6 месяцев назад

Yes, so you probably know that a slightly altered version of this was played for her funeral procession, a perfect adaptation of the feel of this original with the conventions of the pace of modern military procession. I play pipes because of Scots neighbors many years ago from her times, and the Scottish music they shared with our family when I was a young child. An outstanding RU-vid of the QM procession pipes, recorded at street level, is found at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DX05mATrOmQ.htmlsi=zrDV1wXnhk1osCAF

@DaviLourencoORG 6 месяцев назад

@@Dayepipes Interesting! I didn't know that, but I noticed that the song sounded like a mix between "Mist Covered Mountains" and "My Home"

@bolderiks 12 лет назад

The most moving piece for pipes ever, Shivers.

@kevintaylor1789 Год назад

Love the sound of the pipes and drums. Used to be a Scots Guardsman and always felt 10ft tall when marching with the bag pipes.

@findmejak1 12 лет назад

Known in scots gaelic as, 'Chi mi na mo-bheanna' also referred to in english as the 'Mist covered mountains of home'

@JasperBaron-z1d 5 месяцев назад

Mòr-bheanna*

@findmejak1 5 месяцев назад

@@JasperBaron-z1d thank you, you are correct, excuse my two typo errors, no stress on the ò in Mòr and the absence of the r, cheers....

@darnick54 4 месяца назад

Loved this. Real drums too, unlike the bairns rattles the bands play with now. Many thanks

@LaurelKenner 7 лет назад

"Such a tune, expressing all the longing, the love, that we feel for country and place, and for people." -- Alexander McCall Smith, "The World According to Bertie."

@mslaurateague 3 года назад

I enjoy that series, and this book was a personal favorite of mine. The author mentions the tune again, in his book of 2020, “A Promise of Ankles”. “Whenever he (Angus) heard Mist-Covered Mountains, that most haunting of pipe tunes, he saw Glenalmond under soft veils of rain. He saw his friend playing the pipes beside him in the ranks of the band; and they smiled at one another, because that friendship had been such a profound one, and we must keep alive the happiness we experience before the world closes in on us.” Amen (added by me.) Who else writes like that, I ask?

@roccomarciano6099 2 года назад

This moved my soul so beautiful.. RIP Elizabeth 🙏

@braeburn8 12 лет назад

Fascinating recording for those of us who were around at the time and remember this pitch of bagpipe bands in Scotland from childhood. A sound that persisted through the mid to late 1950's. Thank you for posting these recordings. (Pitch of this recording has Low A at approximately 456 Hz; contrasts with the current pitch of around 480 Hz. Tape speeds of the original recording and transcription to and from vinyl records may have altered the true original pitch a little).

@trueblue3719 Год назад

Rest easy your Majesty 😞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇬🇧

@OTMM22 2 года назад

Listened to the procession on the radio at work, got goosebumps as soon as this started playing.

@janetgreen4642 2 года назад

The most moving lament! It certainly reaches the depths of your soul! Heard it played during the Queen Mother’s funeral procession and, now our late Queen. Apparently it was also incorporated into the funeral procession of King George VI and, Winston Churchill in 1965. Absolutely stirring stuff, guaranteed to tug at the heart strings. 🇬🇧💕💕🇬🇧

@Pokemon-Kid112 Месяц назад

It's an integral part of a royal funeral. And it fits

@rockandrollsax 8 лет назад

One of the first pipe band LP's I purchased in the 60's while stationed overseas. I will always be partial toward the military bands. Thanks for posting.

@ononewheellad 2 года назад

As much as I’m an Irishman, the Scots Guards can belt out a fine tune.

@corcaighrebel 2 года назад

Beautiful sound.

@HIGHLAND_BAGPIPES_INDIA 3 года назад

Lovely tune ❤️

@w.reidripley1968 9 месяцев назад

If memory serves, this is the album with my favorite interpretation of 'The Black Bear,' that skips along so briskly it seems almost a strathspey. Am I at all right?

@TrooperEli671 2 года назад

Was played at President John F. Kennedy’s funeral by The Black Watch Pipes and Drummers while they were escorting his casket to his final resting place.

@sheridangmail1277 2 года назад

It was played by the USAF Pipe Band on youtube: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nlio5K3sWXQ.html

@paulcalver7514 6 лет назад

Thank you for this upload, some of the snippets of the Queen Mothers funeral are superb, but hearing a genuine LP, with original piece is outstanding.

@qadrbrotherdiagne1491 2 года назад

THIS LITERALLY GIVING A FEELING NOT EASY TO EXPLAIN 😊😊🙏🏽

@rdwright6708 8 лет назад

Didn't they do a medley of Mist-Covered Mountains and Going Home at the Queen Mum's funeral?

@GrymligastPS4 8 лет назад

Here you go /watch?v=hF7cyerSohU

@dominicwenb2911 6 лет назад

RD Wright yes they also watch them play it on arnham bridge

@Fergus110 5 лет назад

'My home' actually. Both stirring medleys though.

@Trancemaniacism1 3 года назад

@@dominicwenb2911 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A9pnqpUxLS0.html

@billathighwoods4289 Год назад

The photograph was taken at the Duke Of York barracks in Chelsea prior to the Regimental or Battalion sports day. My father was competing and I was there watching. It says 1950, but it was at least a year earlier before the Second Battalion departed for Malaya.

@Dayepipes Год назад

Thank you for this reply. I play the pipes since 1966, I became able to play all the tunes on this recording in my late teen years long ago, but never a player of any importance to the pipe world. Another RU-vid poster of tunes from this album says it was made in 1959 and I have no way to be sure, living so far from Scotland and from London.

@billathighwoods4289 Год назад

I don't know the time period of the recording, I was referring to the photograph and the time frame of the two pipe bands playing on the sports grounds together at the Duke of York barracks and the resultant photographs

@iantaylor8583 2 года назад

Hair on the back of my neck standing up

@bolderiks 12 лет назад

I heard this tune at The Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres some time ago, I already knew this tune for years and it was always my favorit piece. But I could never imagine that it would blow me away as it did in Ypres on that very day. Incredible how the massive sound from so many pipers could be overwhelming and prudent at the same time, it reached my deepest senses. We all make our scapes when this piece comes by Dayepipes!

@susanshepherd8929 11 лет назад

I had this album when I was a teen. Wonder if it's in my basement--it was a long time ago and I used to move it whenever I moved. Alas, my husband decided to move my LP's one day when I wasn't home.

@steveingram5264 Месяц назад

Quality 😁👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@Dayepipes 12 лет назад

@findmejak1 It's played on accordion at the turning point of the movie "Local Hero." Played again by the innkeeper during a band break at the ceilidh. This is a very big tune.

@StuartAxe 11 лет назад

Played at Winston Churchill's funeral too. Played by the Royal Marines when his coffin was loaded onto the barge near The Tower of London for the short trip down the Thames to Waterloo station.

@biauooka Год назад

When I listen this music I love humans for possibility to create something like that.

@ornabell2769 Год назад

Iet me be your 700th like

@community1949 6 лет назад

This was played at John Kennedy's funeral - after what happened to him he deserved that absolutely beautiful funeral.

@dhastings1954 4 года назад

Always loved this tune. Played at JFK S funeral I think....

@Dayepipes 3 года назад

Yes, but not by the visiting Black Watch who marched in his funeral procession. It was the US Air Force Pipe Band who played MC Mts. graveside, not during the parade. Most of the instruments you heard at that national treasure moment were later burned by the Air Force when it dismantled the unit, if I correctly remember what I heard at a piping workshop conducted by their last P/M Sandy Jones.

@seamleas42 3 года назад

What a find. Takes me back. Thank you.

@rdwright6708 8 лет назад

Classic! Thanks for posting this!

@Dayepipes 12 лет назад

Pitch of this is dependable. This vinyl pressed in early 70's many pressings after original I grew up with, I digitized it 1-2 years ago on a direct drive turntable carefully calibrated. There's also my ear which is not quite perfect pitch but nearby. I've seen reports that UK/Brit Isles pre 1939 pitch was A455 compared to your analysis of 456. I've heard 3 pressings of this album that sound the same, pitch is probably right.

@Dayepipes 12 лет назад

@braeburn8 I've seen pitch in the British/Irish world pre 1939's 440 standardization cited at around A=455; 459 was cited by Seamus MacNeil for Highland bagpipes somewhat later in the 50's I think. We should probably accept this pitch. So much about this presentation is astonishing, even to some few of us who can do the finger work at the same level: drone tone; drum head pitch and drumming style; the easy freedom of incredibly complex playing.

@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

I don't understand your first word notation. So far as I know, this recording never survived to the CD and iTunes world, but it was sold new in successive vinyl pressings for some 20 years. So there may be a great quality vinyl that could be digitized for this historic sound to have a future.

@francescacosentino1834 5 месяцев назад

Wooowwww❤

@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

The album doesn't seem to exist in digital space. I'm shy about posting other peoples' copyright tracks. Send me an email.

@CHEF-55457 4 года назад

Maximum ear rape for me at 0:02 And the volume's only at 30%

@flyingscotful 12 лет назад

great tuning and how about those rope drums what a difference and not all drum SECTIONS NOT CORPS NOT SOUNDING THE SAME

@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

The standard "2nds" is for the other part to be noted uniformly 3 notes below the melody 2nd time round, played by some 1/3 of the pipers. In my first contest P/M a lowly Grade 4 contest band in the 1980's, I wrote a 2nds that included departures for moving countermelody. Out of respect to this amazing melody, we played "2nds" 2nd time around on part 1, but 1st time on part 2, so as to start and end with the true melody. Judges liked it.

@RdClZn 12 лет назад

Is there any way I could get this track full?

@BritainiaNumberOne 2 года назад

majestic music

@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

That's often done. As P/M of a novice Grade 4 band, I wrote a "countermelody" in the 1970's that included some close or dissonant harmony (low A against the B, low G against F), and I arranged it with the countermelody on the repeat of part 1 as ususal but unusually the 1st time on part 2, so that out of respect the original trad melody opened and closed the piece. We played it in contest and the judges accepted it without penalty which was probably my biggest contest surprise ever.

@Dayepipes 12 лет назад

Agreed! After 45 years playing, maybe 2 thousand tunes learned to performance standards, if I had to pick just one, this could be it. There was a motion picture technology in the 1950's using 3 cameras and 3 projectors on a super wide curved screen in the theatre, called "Cinerama." I always wished there could be a short Cinerama clip of a plane flying up Glencoe down below the hilltops, with the mist covering the tops, and this tune as a sound track. Or maybe film it in Imax.

@sleethmitchel1 12 лет назад

great tune; somewhere there is a version of this tune played in 'seconds' which has a second melody played parallel to the first. it is not better, but beautiful also. and all this time i thought i was imagining that the pipes were higher and shriller.

@Dayepipes 11 лет назад

If there is anyone still alive who played on this recording, piper or drummer, I'd love to converse with them. As a piper I advanced far enough to be able to play every tune on it; but as a Yank there's so much I could never know about the regiment and the music of this time.

@Trancemaniacism1 3 года назад

Try listening to The Corries folk band do a song called Hush it uses Mist covered mountains tune as its backing :)