Bagpipes And Drums Music Dollar Academy Pipe Band Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video compilation of the Scottish bagpipes and drums music of the Dollar Academy Pipe Band on visit to Dundee, Tayside and Kinross, Perthshire. The band wears the Modern McNabb tartan kilts when performing. Dollar, Scottish Gaelic: Dolair, is a small town in Clackmannanshire. It is 12 miles East of Stirling. Dollar was once a place of residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. The surname McNabb was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, a former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where they joined with the MacDougalls in opposing Robert the Bruce and consequently lost many of the vast territories they had held. However, the Chief of the MacNabs finally became reconciled to the Bruce, and regained many of his lost lands when King David II came to the throne of Scotland. Finlay MacNab, the 4th Chief of the Clan, added considerably to the estates toward the end of the 15th century, but in 1552 another Finlay, the 6th Chief, fell into financial difficulties and mortgaged most of the Clan lands to the Campbell of Glenorchy. The spelling variations of McNabb include MacNab, MacNabb, MacKnab, Mac an Aba in Gaelic and others.
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 McNabb, aged 34, arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship " Indus " in 1843; James McNabb settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in 1784; Hugh McNabb, immigrated to Canada, arriving at the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station in Quebec aboard the ship " Euclid " departing from the port of Glasgow, Scotland but died on Grosse Isle in July 1847; Thomas McNabb arrived in Maryland, America, in 1716; Edward McNabb landed in Mississippi, America, in 1829; Jane McNabb, aged 35, arrived in New York, America, in 1855.

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