Bagpipes And Drums Music Of Lochgelly High School Pipe Band Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of the Lochgelly High School Pipe Band from Fife. Lochgelly, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh, was from the 1830s until the 1960s a mining town. It is located between Lochs Ore and Gelly to the North West and South East respectively. It is separated from Cowdenbeath by the village of Lumphinnans. The band wears Ancient Red MacPherson tartan. 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 Scottish Gaelic surname for Macpherson is Mac a' Phearsain which means son of the parson. The Celtic church allowed priests to marry and the progenitor of the chiefs of Clan Macpherson is believed to have been a man named Muireach or Murdo Cattenach who was the priest of Kingussie in Badenoch. The Clan Macpherson is part of the Chattan Confederation, Clan Chattan. In 843 the chief of Clan Chattan was Gille Chattan Mor and one of his sons, the first chief of Clan Macpherson was forced to resettle in Lochaber by Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scots. The chief could have been the lay prior of Ardchattan and he seems to have been named in honour of Saint Cathan. Touch not the cat bot a glove. Bot means without. The glove of a wildcat is the pad. If the cat is ungloved, its claws are unsheathed. The motto serves as a warning that one should beware when the wildcat's claws are without a glove. It is a reference to the historically violent nature of the clan and serves as a metaphorical warning to other clans that they should think twice before interfering with Macpherson business.

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