Bagpipes And Drums Music The Highlanders 4 SCOTS Pipes And Drums Pipe Band Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of The Highlanders 4 SCOTS Pipes And Drums Pipe Band. The band wears Cameron of Erracht tartan kilts. The battalion primarily recruits from the Hebrides, the Northern Isles, the mainland counties of Inverness-shire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, Moray and Nairnshire, and from the traditional Gordon heartlands in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The Battalion Headquarters is located at Cameron Barracks in Inverness. The Camerons of Erracht were a minor noble Scottish family and a branch of the Clan Cameron, a Highland Scottish clan. In Scottish Gaelic they are known as the Sliochd Eoghain ic Eoghian, the children of Ewen, son of Ewen. The first representative of the Cameron of Erracht family was Ewen Cameron, son of Ewen Cameron, of Lochiel, chief of Clan Cameron by his second wife Marjory Mackintosh, daughter of William Mackintosh, 13th chief of Clan Mackintosh. Donald Cameron, 7th of Erracht was born shortly before the Jacobite rising of 1715. Thirty years later during the Jacobite rising of 1745 he joined Cameron of Lochiel and was second in command at the historic Glenfinnan gathering. After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, Cameron of Erracht was a homeless warrior in the mountains for three years. He had three children, the eldest of whom was Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht who raised the 79th or Cameron Highlanders in 1793. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Commandant and led the regiment through the severe campaigns in Flanders from 1794 to 1795. In 1797 the regiment was broken up and two hundred and ten men joined the Black Watch regiment. In 1798 Cameron of Erracht raised a second 79th regiment that was seven hundred and eighty strong and after taking part in many engagements he died in 1828 in Fulham. Captain Ludovick Cameron, born 1866, died 1947, was a contributor to the sporting press and lived in Kent. Although he claimed to be the chieftain of Cameron of Erracht, he died without having been able to establish his claim. The Great Highland bagpipe, Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr, is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. 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. Since today's drum is so facile as a result of its design, players are often able to execute extremely complicated and technically demanding rudimentary patterns.

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