Traditional Scottish Highland Bagpipes
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or Highland Evening Dress
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Thank you for visiting this piping website, where the aim is to provide the very best music of the Scottish bagpipes for entertainment and ceremonial occasions.
The ancient haunting sound of the highland bagpipes played by bagpipers in the Scottish traditional style, is amongst the few universally recognisable musical idioms the world over. Wherever Scots have travelled throughout the world, the bagpipes have generally been a hallmark of the music of the Scottish nation which has endeared itself to many other cultures around the world. The bagpipes represent the deep resonance of the fiercely defended traditions of a nation that has a proud history and an abiding sense of ceremony and aesthetics.
Perhaps the most famous of all formal bagpipe teaching centres originated in the 16th century at Boraraig on the Isle of Skye under the legendary MacCrimmons who were hereditory bagpipers to the Chief of Clan MacLeod. Such traditional schools of piping in the highlands of Scotland are now sadly gone. There are, however, three main schools for Pipers in the United Kingdom; the Army School of Piping located in Edinburgh, affiliated with the Royal Military School of Music, the College of Piping located in Glasgow (a civilian organization which began in 1947 and is now known throughout the world) and the Piping Centre, also located in Glasgow.
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