Bagpipes And Drums Music Of Greyfriars Pipe Band Glasgow Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of Greyfriars Pipe Band from Glasgow. The pipes and drums band is based in Barlanark a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated east of Budhill, Shettleston and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Springhill and Swinton and south of Easthall, Easterhouse and Wellhouse. The name Barlanark is an apparently hybrid Gaelic Brythonic name suggesting the hill at the clearing from the Gaelic bàrr and Brythonic lanerc meaning " clearing ". 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.

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