Bagpipes And Drums Music Peebles Ex Servicemen's Pipe Band Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the bagpipes and drums music of the Peebles Ex-Servicemen's Pipe Band. Peebles, Scottish Gaelic: Na Pùballan, is a royal burgh worth a visit in Peeblesshire, of which it is the county town, within the Scottish Borders region. The Band wears Royal Stewart tartan kilts. The Royal Stewart or Royal Stuart tartan is the best known tartan retrospectively associated with the royal House of Stewart, and is also the personal tartan of Queen Elizabeth II. Officially, the tartan is worn by the pipers of the Black Watch, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and the Scots Guards, as well as a select few civilian groups. Theoretically, this tartan should not be worn without the express permission of the Queen. However, the Scottish Register of Tartans observes that in practice, due to its popularity, it has become a universal tartan, which can be worn by anyone who doesn't have their own clan tartan. In the same way that clansmen wear the tartan of their chief, it is appropriate for all subjects of the Queen to wear the Royal Stewart tartan.

Scotland's history is inextricably linked to that of the Royal Clan, the Clan Stewart. The surname Stewart was an occupational name for a steward, the official in charge of a noble household and its treasury. It derives from the Old English word " stigweard," a compound of " stig, " or " household, " and " weard, " or " guardian." As every great house, Earl and Bishop in medieval England and Scotland had its stewards, this office has given rise to many lines of this hereditary surname.

The Great Highland Bagpipe or Piob Mhor, is an instrument with opposing harsh shrills and graceful tones, meant to be played outdoors, in the open countryside and it is well suited in inspiring Scotsmen, and women, on the field of battle and in the aftermath, mourning the fallen, or celebrating victory. Through history, pipers are remembered for being mortally or seriously wounded the latter whilst continuing to play in the face of adversity. The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the breacan or belted plaid, during the 16th century in the Scottish Highlands and is Gaelic in origin. The filleadh mòr or great kilt was a full length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. A version of the filleadh beag, philibeg, or small kilt, was also known as the walking kilt. The small kilt or modern kilt emerged in the 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt. Since the 19th century, it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland, and more broadly with Gaelic or Celtic heritage. It is most often made of woollen cloth in a tartan pattern.
Robert Stewart, a watch maker, arrived in New South Wales, Australia sometime between 1825 and 1832; Alexander Stewart, aged 19, a baker, arrived in Port Nicholson aboard the ship Lady Nugent in 1841; Andrew Stewart, landed in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1749; Alexander Stewart, a Jacobite captured at Preston, was among those banished to the plantations, transported from Liverpool to South Carolina, America, aboard the Susanna" in 1716.

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