"What tune for you Highlanders?" Topic

@ HistoryPhD
I am by no means knowledgeable enough on this topic to be used as a definitive source, however a quick search of the www got this, link below, as I said, a whole bucket of worms

LIST of FRASER MUSIC, DANCE & SONGS
Titles of Tunes with a Fraser Connection
Lord Saltoun – Reel for dance band.
Lady Saltoun's Strathspey – Adapted for pipes by Don Chitts.
Lady Saltoun's Air – for pipes. John Follin
Lord Lovat's Lament – Piobreachd
Lord Lovat's March – Often erroneously called Lord Lovat's Lament.
Lord Lovat's Strathspey – Based on the march, Morair Sim.
The Lovat Scouts – Written by Scott-Skinner when seeing them embarking for South Africa.
Morair Sim (Lord Simon) – Regimental march of the Lovat Scouts.
Fraser Patrick's Favourite – Reel for dance band.
Frazer's Day – Slow air for pipes.
Kathy Fraser's Jig – Jig for dance band.
Wild Song of Freedom – Andy Stewart song to the tune of Lord Lovat's March.
Legend of Scotland – Grant Fraser song to the tune of Lord Lovat's March.
Back o' Reires Hill – Andy Stewart song to the tune of The Lovat Scouts
The Gathering of Clan Fraser – Pipe march by Chris Stevens of New Zealand.
The Gathering of Clan Fraser Strathspey – Adapted by Don Chitts.
Granny Fraser's Flitting from Aboyne tae Aberdeen- Bothy Ballad Style
PIPE MUSIC SHEETS
Lady Saltoun's Air-John Follin (also as a slow march)
Lady Saltoun's Reel
Lady Saltoun's Strathspey- adapted by Don Chitts

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For my Highlanders, anything with bagpipes in it. Favorites are: Scotland Forever, The Green Hills of Tyrol, Highland Laddie, The Banks of Allan Water, Bonnie Dundee, and The Campbells Are Coming.

Jim

for me to many to list, as a Pipe drum major I have a lot of favourites

The Green Hills Of Tyrol
The Battle Is O'er
Athol Highlanders
Brown Haired maiden
Highroad to Gairloch
Clanranald's March
Inverness gathering
The Drunken Piper
79th's Farwell To Gibraltar
Earl Of Mansfield
Itchy Fingers
Captian Horne (Strasprey)
Lachlan Macfarlanes (reel)
The Highland Wedding
The Smith Of Chillehassie
Rory McLeod
Chloe's Passion
The Ravenous Jaybird
Highland Laddie & The Black Bear (retreats)

just some of the sets we play, my favs are 6/8s and reels though!

Chopsticks

Thunderstruck
YouTube link

Has to be "Will ye no come back again" as in Gunga Din.

That's a bit of a downer for going into battle! Only to topped by "Flowers of the Forest " and "Lochaber no more".

Stairway to Heaven

Freebird!!

I once heard a story that at the end of the North Africa campaign, the massed pipes and drums played for a victory parade. As each Scottish regiment marched past, the P&D played the appropriate march past. It was apparently a great success, except that as the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders marched past, the volume dropped significantly as all the pipers and drummers from other regiments "forgot" how to play "The Campbells are Coming". Seems some old memories last a looooong time!

I always thought that was " the Camels are coming".

The White Cockade! In my band we used Windy as a rally tune for lost men in a crowd of boozers. Savanah on St Patrick's night there were too many pipers all over the place, but if you heard Windy it meant one of our gang was away and in need of recovery. And I've always loved the title of the Cameron tune from the 17thc "sons of dogs come and I will give you flesh" -anyone have the music for that?

I always thought that was " the Camels are coming"

That would be the Royal Flying Corps….

I've got a WWII documentary (I think it is the venerable World At War series) with footage of the massed pipes and drums of the 51st Highland Division leading the victory parade into Tripoli and they're playing "Leaving Port Arisaig", a 6/8 march, and it sounds brilliant.

Solo pipers may have been called on to play the official regimental Charge when going in, but it seems from accounts that they often pretty much played whatever came into their heads after that. Reliable documentation can be scarce. Few observors either knew pipe music well enough to tell one tune from another, or afterwards no one could clearly remember, even the piper in question. There weren't any judges taking notes, after all.

With my usual generalship it is The Last Post.

Scotland the BRAVE!

NY Irish;

"SONS OF THE HOUND COME AND EAT FLESH" is the Cameron battlecry

Colin