Tour Scotland Travel Video Pipe Band Snare Drummers Highland Games Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Pipe Band snare drummers practising before the Pipe Band competition at the Highland Games on rainy day ancestry visit to Scone Palace Park by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The drum corps of a pipe band consists of a section of drummers playing Highland snare drums and the bass section. In the early days of pipe bands, rope tension snare drums were common, but as the technology evolved, so did the music. Pipe band drummers now play on drums with very tight, knitted kevlar heads, designed for maximum tension to create a very crisp and strident sound. Due to technological innovations and changing aesthetics, this crispness has become an integral part of the pipe band sound.

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