What They Don't Say About the Piper's Lament

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Bagpipes are an essential to Highland culture. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, tells the story of MacCrimmon's Lament, but asks is there a sadder tale still?
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@maryannedouglas 2 года назад

Of course you should do a video on the history of the pipes Bruce! I dare anyone not to start tapping their feet when the pipes start sounding

@zeropointconsciousness 2 года назад

They do stir our blood no doubt about that.

@djwbagpipes 2 года назад

Been playing for 15 years and still gives me chills to play piobairchd (classical bagpipe music) that would have been played during the period of this video. Please make more video with bagpipes

@eamonnclabby7067 2 года назад

Totally agree...stirs this old Gaels soul..best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E

@noraelliott7304 2 года назад

Absolutely!

@margeretmacdonald8886 2 года назад

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@BrianRLange 2 года назад

A video on the history of the pipes would be awesome!! A few years ago several friends were camping up in the mountains of Washington state in the USA. As we sat around the campfire, there came a haunting sound through the forest. I looked across the fire at the only other person there with Scots ancestry, and without a word, we both stood up and walked down the road not believing what we knew we were hearing. About a half-mile down the road was a campsite with a lone piper playing. He was on a long holiday touring the states and had brought his pipes with him. We had been drawn by the sound of the pipes and sat listening to him for an hour or so before we walked back to camp. I doubt that I will ever forget the undeniable draw the sound of the pipes had when we heard them calling through the forest.

@brianbaswell5895 Год назад

Brian, Bagpipes have the same effect on me!

@w.reidripley1968 29 дней назад

"The pipes, the pipes are calling . . ." I've had people _run_ up to me -- and I am taking up my pipes again... my fingerings are much decayed just now. Good thing I am persnickety!

@FrankieMaryNicA 2 года назад

MacCrimmon's Lament is also a beautiful song - I have sung it many times. My father was a piper, and used to get angry when people talked about "the skirl of the pipes" - to pipers of my father's generation, a skirl was the name of the sound a piper made when his/her fingers didn't cover the holes on the chanter properly and so didn't get a pure note. So when people talked about the skirl of the pipes, to my father that meant they were saying that the piper was making lots of mistakes. Perhaps you could share that in your video about the history of the bagpipes!

@eamonnclabby7067 2 года назад

Good point well made....

@Marcblur 2 года назад

Skirl is also when a bottom hand note like Low A or Low G makes a gurgling sound because the piper is blowing the reed too hard. Your dad was right though. It does show a lack of control of the instrument and "skirl" has always left me feeling the same.

@brianrowlands9751 2 года назад

Your father was absolutely right. Also, frying oatmeal and onions together makes a distinctive spluttering squeak - hence the name of the dish: "skirlie"

@akadacat 2 года назад

Yeah, my dad said on a couple of occasions that skirl referred to a mistake or tuning of the pipes, not the playing thereof. it wasn't until his funeral that I discovered that my Grandad 's name was Black, and my ancestry was Scottish.

@michaelgillespie1206 Год назад

I did not know that skirling was a reference to mistakes, I thought that's what the proper sound was called, what I don't care for is when the high A has too much screech.

@Trissana13 2 года назад

when I was 5 I heard Highland Bagpipes for the first time. I still vividly remember how I felt that I had found Home when I heard them. I have loved bagpipes and Scotland with all my heart and soul ever since. Yes, please do a video about the history of bagpipes.

@DiecastDreamCustoms 2 года назад

I can't wait to watch this. My grandmother used to tell me about the pipers lament (she was an Irish transplant in to a Scottish family), but I've been up editing all night (Ohio, USA). I NOW HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO WAKE UP! lol

@chrissaltmarsh6777 2 года назад

Waiting at the church for my Mum's funeral, the piper came from a distance, playing a lament. I lost it, of course. This was in Yorkshire, as it happens. The piper also played those smaller pipes - baguettes? Lovely sound. Dawn in Glencoe, the mist, and the pipes. Perhaps 400m away is about right.

@barhambrummage539 2 года назад

Are you taking the Mickey? Baguettes are bread sticks!

@marioguidotomasone1265 2 года назад

@@barhambrummage539 most likely he palyed smallpipes, a bellow blown quieter version of the Great Highland Bagpipe, The French equivalent -a bellow blown abd pretty quiet instrument- is called "musett" as opposed to "baguette" , which is aform of bread, aye. ......but they ryme, so you can get sometimes confused Here's waht a musette looks (and sounds ) like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FfHAcqQsn-g.html

@marioguidotomasone1265 2 года назад

And here's three well knows lads playing the scottish smallpipes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nRFR3_EYuyU.html

@christajennings3828 2 года назад

Uillean pipes.

@douglasherron7534 2 года назад

As @mario guido tomasone says they were probably the smallpipes. A traditional/ common lament played at funerals or on Remembrance Day is 'The Flowers of the Forest' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KZKzUbIjr30.html&ab_channel=EpicBagpipeSound often the piper will walk away / round a corner so the sound fades away towards the end.

@kohrsthomas 2 года назад

Please do more about, with and on the Pipes. Vielen Dank for this Episode of getting a feel of Piping

@trikepilot101 2 года назад

A great telling of this history. Thank You. And yes, more videos about the pipes, please.

@7rslender 2 года назад

what a sad story. yes I do love bagpipes. the sound always sends a shiver down my spine. a good one that is.

@elendil7 2 года назад

This brought tears to my eyes😢. I LOVE bagpipes! Please do more about this subject. 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gorgeous video. Thank you, Bruce and team.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Thank you! Will do!

@angehuntsman679 2 года назад

Thank you for the video. A big Yes Please for a history of the pipes. I love their sound and you always make interesting and entertaining videos.

@donaldedgar1004 4 месяца назад

There’s not a better sound than to listen to a set or sets of bagpipes and drums my uncle Alex was a pipe major I always love the sound of the bagpipes it’s a loving haunting sound with your foot tapping to the music

@alger8181 2 года назад

I love the bagpipes, and would greatly appreciate a history of them!

@euanross7891 2 года назад

Love the sound of the pipes. A history of them would be really interesting

@arlenesobhani8739 Год назад

A thrilling tale, well told.

@btesh69 2 года назад

You never skip a beat, fantastic job.

@gregtaylor3432 2 года назад

I for one would be most interested in a history of the bagpipes!!

@DesertWolfSurvival Год назад

Greetings from the states. Great video as always my man, absolutely fantastic. I truly hope that there are many more to come.

@tomrichards494 2 года назад

A video on the history of the pipes? Yes, please.

@canadianperspective3731 2 года назад

The sound of the pipes reach right down to the core of my being, it’s hard to find the words to express the feeling. It’s like an inherent response calling across the centuries and an ocean. Please do a history of the bagpipes, and may you be blessed.

@davidthomas9731 2 года назад

Please make that video Bruce 🙏 … the history of the bagpipes is a topic I would wait up late for. Sad that the sheep replaced the pipers. Part of my ancestors were cleared out of Sutherland, and left for Australia from Brora.

@raidercam567 2 года назад

Would love a video on the history of pipes. I'm part of the Gordon Highlanders here in Buffalo, New York. Would be great to share with the band 👍

@michaelconnell9274 2 года назад

Thanks Bruce. As a piper of 23 years, (I also piped for the US Army) I have done a bit of research on the histories of individual pipe tunes from warfare. As I study Gàidhlig and the songs, many are matched to pipe tunes. This is very fascinating study for me. Keep doing what you're doing. Maybe even dig into some of the histories of the tunes (not songs). Slàinte a charaid.

@bigfishtales 2 года назад

Absolutely!! Give us the history of the pipes.

@divarachelenvy 2 года назад

loved this Ep Bruce, please do a bagpipes story. thanks ...

@janethadley9162 2 года назад

A documentary on bagpipes would be loved by me because I love the sound of them

@barbaralavoie1045 2 года назад

I do like the bagpipes. An interesting “ story” again, as well as some of your humor🤣👍 great scenery as well. Thank you.

@joshuabowes6585 2 года назад

I agree. Doing a video on the history/significance of Scottish bagpipes, makes perfect sense. I think everyone would be interested in that.

@charliebarker1719 2 года назад

I just started playing my great grandfathers pipes and found this channel. My family came through Nova Scotia. Would love a story on the history of the highland pipes

@proudpict2057 2 года назад

You’ve got a habit of making me cry! Hearing the pipes anytime sets the blood to proud Scottish rolling boil! It’s like spinach to Popeye!

@graemehelleur1627 Месяц назад

I played the pipes in the Motueka Highland Pipe band, NZ. We knew of the great MacCrimmon pipers of Skye. I would love a video of the history of the pipes Bruce.

@maryellencook9528 2 года назад

Yes! PLEASE do a history on the bagpipes.

@autiejedi5857 2 года назад

History of pipes? Yes please! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩

@bobreece5842 2 года назад

Love this video. In 1996, I visited Dunvegan Castle, and Borreraig across the loch from the castle. At that time, as I traveled the one-lane road near Borreraig, I came to find the biggest surprise of my weeklong trip in Scotland: The Scottish Heritage Pipe Museum. At least, that's the name I best remember. Sadly, I believe it's no longer open. It was an amazing place where the history of the Pipes and Piobaireachd were told. I came back with a ton of piper CDs. I love the pipes, so I do hope you produce a video all about their history. Thank you for this video about "MacCrimmon's Lament".

@rachelduncan5560 2 года назад

Brilliant story Bruce & yes of course you should do a video on the bagpipes

@letsdoit9963 2 года назад

Hi Bruce, I fled Scotland a wee while back because I felt lost. Now I've come to think that a man without a past has no future. As you probably know we are not taught what you teach as young Scots. Infact we not even taught our own language, which angers me. I've came to realise that this is by design, for which I must put a side as this has happened across the world to many people's. Watching your videos makes me feel proud to be Scottish again, learning more about my country's past and for that, I give you thanks. You inspire me to return to Scotland, too try to do the same with young Scott's. Thank you brother for your passion for our country! Alba gu bra

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Brilliant

@rksnj6797 2 года назад

As usual, a wonderful and educational video! You definitely need to make a video of the history of the bagpipes. I believe for most people outside of the UK, bagpipes represent Scotland and everything Scottish more so than the Thistle.

@pollyduron674 2 года назад

A video about bagpipes would be amazing. I have loved them since I was little, although my family didn't appreciate it so much 🤷‍♀️. I didn't expect the emotional ending to this video...it's really very sad.

@runawayrowestravel1728 2 года назад

Yes, please do a video on the history of the pipes!!!

@robbylock1741 2 года назад

I vote for you to make a video on the history of pipers and bagpipes!

@thatrachellegirl3321 Год назад

Amazing. Looking forward to hearing more. My family are MacCrimmons, the hereditary pipers to MacLeod of Macleod. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿And carried the tradition & reputation here to the prairies of Western Canada. 🇨🇦 Malcolm R. MacCrimmon is my Granny’s cousin. He was also the great great grandnephew of Iain Dubh MacCrimmon of Borreraig Piping School.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 10 месяцев назад

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@mgraemem 2 года назад

Yes, please Bruce do a video on the history of the pipes. :-)

@capoeirastronaut Год назад

"the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide"

@emmalouise7837 2 года назад

This is the first video I've watched of yours! I can't wait to watch watch more. I'm very glad to have found your channel!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Welcome aboard!

@eamonnclabby7067 2 года назад

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Bruce's magical mystery tour, in every sense ....no mean feat...

@Jcdaking81 2 года назад

im a Englishman and i totally love the sound off the bagpipes its a truely unique instrument, well my grannie was from Aberdeen too, and we have family in Scotland too still

@thejacobitehiker 2 года назад

Another great and interesting video, Bruce. Really love your stuff. As a descendant of Jacobites your videos bring much home. Love what you do. Davey.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Glad you like them!

@jimmyhawk3270 2 года назад

Aye, I LOVE bagpipes! "Scotland the Brave" especially, gets me heart a' pumpin' !!! I have several CDs of bagpipe music, accompanied by no other instruments, except maybe drums; strathspeys, dances, marches, reels, pibrochs and laments. When I listen to pipe music, so does me neighbors! But I cannae help it. It's in me blud!

@Neoentrophy 2 года назад

All things must end, that's what makes things precious. Its a lament for all that was gone, and all that is yet to be lost.

@Oheh84 2 года назад

I love your videos Bruce and yes! Do a video about the pipes. I literally just read in ‘Culloden’ by John Prebble, about how the MacCrimmons were pipers, and I knew a lad in high school who’s last name is MacCrimmon and he’s an excellent piper.

@stephaniemaloney4324 2 года назад

Yes please! History of bagpipes!

@yukongetit4603 2 года назад

Please do a video on the history of bagpipes! I'll gladly buy you a coffee haha I think there is a lot of interesting history to the bagpipes that makes it more than an instrument ⚔️

@spiffyspits3605 2 года назад

Yes. I do love the pipers. Let the history of pipers be continue...

@benbeeson6487 2 года назад

I would really enjoy a video on the history of the bagpipes!

@raymondeichler442 2 года назад

Great story. I had forgotten that Donald Ban fell at Moy. Thank you!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Our pleasure!

@charleswood2182 Год назад

Sir. You created a masterpiece here.

@ScotlandHistoryTours Год назад

Ah thanks

@alasdairmackintosh 2 года назад

It was so cool to hear about Lady Mackintosh, as a MacGillivray it's part of our clan history that when she raised the fighting force, she had asked the Chief Alexander MacGillivray to lead the rest of the men into battle. Alexander MacGillivrays body was buried with his broadsword in hand, as it was so swollen he couldn't be parted from it. Mackintosh was the head of the Clan Chattan Confederacy, which MacGillivrays were a part of.

@luciadangelo1009 2 года назад

Oh please, more bagpipes are a wonderful idea!

@kalamitykaren 2 года назад

Ive always loved the bagpipes.

@vickiturner628 Год назад

Please, DO TELL THE HISTORY OF BAGPIPES! What an unusual instrument!

@Marcblur 2 года назад

I'd love to see you do a full video on the history of bagpipes. I've been piping for over 30 years and hear so much dodgy ***** about the instrument (from people who've never so much as picked up a practice chanter) that I barely know what to believe anymore.

@tammiewilson5185 2 года назад

Yes on both bagpipes video!

@happybee7725 2 года назад

Would I like to see a video about the history of bag pipes?definitely . Do I even like bagpipes? I absolutely adore listening to people playing the bag pipes

@chansouvannarath3789 4 месяца назад

Some of the most beautiful music in the world

@suzannemacaulay29 2 года назад

I would love to see a video on the history of bagpipes!

@lelleithmurray235 2 года назад

I would love to hear the story of the bagpipe Bruce.

@maycontainchaos9979 2 года назад

Fascinating, as always, especially as Iain Norman McCrimmon is my uncle .... and I'm a Fraser ! I'm fairly certain his son, my cousin Callum, plays the pipes too (for a short time with The Red Hot Chilli Pipers) ... so the legacy is safe 👍 I love the pipes, but cannae play them for toffee ... so more videos on their history would be amazing !

@lspthrattan 2 года назад

Love the bagpipes. Once a year here in the US, many Presbyterian churches have a Sunday we call the Kirking of the Tartans. It's a really big deal, complete with bagpipes, at my old church.

@highlanddrummer3256 2 года назад

A history on bagpipes would be awesome Bruce! How about a bit on Snare Drummers too. I’m a bit partial to pipe band snare drummers because I am one lol. Did drummer’s accompany pipers at Culloden ? I found a list of Fraser Highlanders who fought with Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham. There are a few Fraser Drummers listed. I’m guessing they may have been at Culloden too?

@rubyturner2794 2 года назад

Sad story indeed. Good idea to do a video on bagpipes 😃

@brookejohnson2505 2 года назад

Yes, bagpipe history, please!

@allisonshaw9341 2 года назад

Many years ago, some local Scottish Americans - and a few native-born Scots - came to one of our powwows, wearing their regalia and carrying their pipes and drums, their presence to honor us as the Indigenous People and Elder Brothers in this land. To their surprise, when they played many of our people danced. It was surprising to all how well Native traditional dances went with the reels. And when our Scots brethren played the Pipers Lament to honor fallen veterans and Natives who had passed on due to wars and genocide, we stood still and held our hands or eagle feather fans in salute. It was a beautiful experience for everyone.

@eamonnclabby7067 2 года назад

Hi Alison, thank you for sharing this with us all, my clan ( O,cahan and Duffy) in Donegal were at the height of the great famine in the 19th century given a donation by the Cherokee nation...we are all one, peace and love from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

The Skye Land Wars ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FQ92_d3u3QA.html

@milesbliss3256 2 года назад

A vote for a video of bagpipes, great video

@dannymcglone7430 9 месяцев назад

Loved this video,MY FIRST ONE.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 9 месяцев назад

Awesome! Thank you!

@rodmacrae3611 2 года назад

I would certainly watch a programme on the great highland pipes. I would zlsocshard it to all my friends and family

@lynnemurphy114 2 года назад

Yes I love the pipes tis sad that they moved people for sheep,you tell the history like a sad story but it's true and we must never forget....this is a must share Mr Bruce

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 года назад

Share away

@eldorados_lost_searcher 2 года назад

A video or twenty on bagpipes and pipers in general would be appreciated, sir.

@Alasdair37448 Год назад

I love the pipes a magnificent instrument and the only wind instrument capable of producing multiple sounds at once.

@peterfife4995 2 года назад

I would love to see a video on the history of the pipes ta very much.

@bobrosenberg1640 2 года назад

Someone said that the Bagpipes thrill your heart, or sound like a hurt cat screeching. I’m of the former - I love to hear the pipes!

@vickiturner628 Год назад

We LOVE BAGPIPES!

@raymondfink9580 2 года назад

I love the pipes! They make the hair on my arms and neck stand on end.

@angusmacdonald4860 2 года назад

I want bagpipes in every intro!

@minecraftiscool123 2 года назад

I think a history of the bagpipes would be really interesting. Which came first the Irish or Scottish bagpipes?

@willemventer3935 2 года назад

history of bagpipes, sound very interesting

@elizabethlyons1066 2 года назад

More bagpipes please!!!!!🖖🏼

@eamonnclabby7067 2 года назад

Seconded

@Chris-ut6eq Год назад

bagpipes rock! history rocks!

@stevehardy4694 2 года назад

A video about the pipes--yes, please.

@bwianeh 2 года назад

Bagpipes are my favorite.

@bellehartley Год назад

Love bagpipes!

@Pajaholic 2 года назад

I'd be very interested to know the true history of the bagpipes. Bagpipes as a whole, that is, not just their most famous incarnation: the Great Highland Bagpipes. AIUI, it wasn't a fiddle that Nero played while Rome burned; it was a tibi utricularis -- an early bagpipe. Even earlier, I suspect that bagpipes existed in Babylonian times. But where did the idea originate? How did the pipes propagate across almost all of Eurasia? That said, I'd be surprised if any society embraced the pipes more than the Scots. This sounds like a really interesting project -- good luck, Bruce; I can't wait!