Photograph of the Highland Games Field, Markinch, Fife, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Highland Fling Markinch Fife
Tour Scotland photograph of the Highland Fling being performed at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. The Highland Fling is one of the oldest of the traditional Highland dances of Scotland.
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Photograph Junior Highland Dancers Markinch Scotland
Photograph of Junior Scottish Highland Dancers at Markinch Highland Games, Markinch, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland Photograph Solo Piping Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of the solo Piping competition at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. There were pipes and reeds away back in prehistoric days. The Persians, Chinese and Romans mention bagpipes in their ancient folklore, with Emperor Nero starring as a piper as well as a fiddler. The single drone pipe instrument can be traced back to 100A.D. by Scottish musical historians. The addition of a second drone around 1500, and then the bass drone some 200 years later, led to the instrument being recognised world wide as the Highland Bagpipe.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Throwing The Weight Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of throwing the weight at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. At the Highland Games, the weight throw consists of two separate events, the light weight and the heavy weight. In both cases, the implement consists of a steel or lead weight, usually spherical or cylindrical, attached by a short chain to a metal handle. The handle may be a d-ring, a triangle or a ring. The size of the weight depends on the class of the competition.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Pipe Band Competition Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of the Pipe Band Competition at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. The most common form of pipe band consists of a section of bagpipe players, a section of snare drummers, assisted by tenor drummers and usually one, though occasionally two, bass drummers. The entire drum section is known collectively as the drum corps. The tenor drummers and bass drummer are referred to collectively as the bass section.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Blowing The Bagpipes Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of a Scottish Bagpiper blowing the bagpipes at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. The most important area to concentrate on for the beginning piper is blowing the bagpipe steadily. Many pipers never master this, even after years of playing. The reason for this is that they did not take time in the beginning to practice it. You must master steady blowing in order to get good tone from your instrument. Even the best Bagpipe in the world will not produce good tone unless it is blown steadily.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Throwing The Hammer Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of throwing the hammer at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. This event is similar to the hammer throw as seen in modern day track and field competitions, though with some differences. In the Scottish event, a round metal ball, weighing 16 or 22 lb for men or 12 or 16 lb for women, is attached to the end of a shaft about 4 feet in length and made out of wood, bamboo, rattan, or plastic. With the feet in a fixed position, the hammer is whirled about one's head and thrown for distance over the shoulder. Hammer throwers sometimes employ specially designed footwear with flat blades to dig into the turf to maintain their balance and resist the centrifugal forces of the implement as it is whirled about the head. This substantially increases the distance attainable in the throw.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Cyclists Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of cyclists competing at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. Scotland has a well established grass track cycling scene which has evolved as part of the Highlands games. Most races are handicapped where riders get a head start depending on ability and they tend to cover 800m, 1 mile, 3200m, 6400m and most also include a special race called the Deil tak the Hindmost. The Deil, or Devil, is an elimination race where all riders start together and at the end of each lap the last rider gets eliminated, until you are left with only one rider, who is the winner.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Drum Major Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of a Scottish Drum Major at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. A drum major is the leader of a marching band, drum and bugle corps, or pipe band, usually positioned at the head of the band or corps. The position of drum major originated in the British Army with the Corps of Drums in 1650. Military groups performed mostly duty calls and battle signals during that period, and a fife and drum corps, directed by the drum major, would use short pieces to communicate to field units. With the arrival of military concert bands and pipe bands around the 18th century, the position of the drum major was adapted to those ensembles.
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Photograph Liberty Hot Dog Stand Scotland
Photograph of a Scottish Pipe Band in front of the "Liberty" Hot Dog Stand, Markinch Highland Games, Markinch, Fife, Scotland.
Tour Scotland Photograph Video Putting The Shot Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of a Scottish competitor putting the shot at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. The shot put is a favourite at all good Highland Games. Competitors throw a large stone of around 20 - 26lbs in weight as far as they can. The stone is thrown either after a short run up to the toeboard or from a fixed standing position, depending on the rules of the competition. The contestant who throws the furthest wins.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Highland Dancers Markinch
Tour Scotland photograph of Scottish Highland Dancers at the Highland Games in Markinch, Fife, Scotland. Highland dance or Highland dancing is a style of competitive solo dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games, where it is often performed to the accompaniment of Highland bagpipe music. It is now seen at nearly every modern-day Highland games event.
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