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Tom Johnstone
Registrace 5. 11. 2011
My aim is to add videos to demonsrate tunes and ceremonies as appropriate.
I have music for some of the tunes which I can send to viewers if they email me.
I have music for some of the tunes which I can send to viewers if they email me.
Funeral Bagpipes "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep"
This is a beautiful but unusual or seldom requested piece.
it is actually an army "lights out" tune which I learned at a College of Piping summer school when I was a lad......
it is actually an army "lights out" tune which I learned at a College of Piping summer school when I was a lad......
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Christmas Bagpipes In Dulci Jubilo
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Made this video for "Dreams come true 2021" which is from Russia. For those interested the Pipe Chanter is the Ceol by McCallum Bagpipes, Drone reeds by Eezedrone. The actual pipes are 1929 Hendersons. I also played this tune along with Gordon Bruce and Craig Muirhead on the "Lone Star Pipers album - Fairytale of Scotland"
Christmas Bagpipes God rest ye Merry Gentlemen / We wish you a merry Christmas
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Christmas Bagpipes God rest ye Merry Gentlemen / We wish you a merry Christmas
Christmas Bagpipes O Come All Ye Faithful / Ding Dong Merrily on High
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Christmas Bagpipes O Come All Ye Faithful / Ding Dong Merrily on High
Christmas Bagpipes Good King Wenceslas / Jingle Bells
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Christmas Bagpipes Good King Wenceslas / Jingle Bells
Funeral piper "My Home". Tom Johnstone playing in Paisley
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This tune "My Home" was played at the Queen Mother's funeral a few years ago and is a lovely tune. I am available to play at Weddings and Funerals and can be contacted via my website www.expertpiper.co.uk
loch lomond set on bagpipes for the Kincaid House residents!
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loch lomond set on bagpipes for the Kincaid House residents!
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Funeral Bagpiper Murder by Decree 1978 [Best Funeral piper in a movie] Flowers of the forest
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This is me playing Flowers of the Forest in the film Murder by Decree starring Christopher Plummer. The tune was edited by the filmakers - that is why it appears to repeat.. The version of the tune I learned from Bob Hardie. I am available to play at weddings and funerals. Email me at tompiperair@gmail.com
Going Home on bagpipes at Funeral in Scotland
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I played at this funeral recently and was kindly sent this video. The weather was wet that day but all went smoothly. This tune, "Going Home" is actually from Dvorjak's New World Symphony and is associated with the "Hovis Bread" advert on TV. I am available to play at weddings and funerals and can be contacted via my website www.expertpiper.co.uk
Highland Cathedral Funeral Procession bagpipes Glasgow best dressed piper
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Funeral procession playing Highland Cathedral at Daldowie Crematorium Glasgow. Tel Tom 07836 543600 Apologies for some wind noise on the microphone. This video also shows that you can march quickly whilst playing a slow tune.
The Day Thou Gavest - Bagpipes
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The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended played in the Church of St Louis at the conclusion of the Lorient Festival 2017
By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill - Bagpipes
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Church of St Louis Lorient at the end of the Festival 2017
New Year Party! Bagpipes Linwood
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Everyone enjoying themselves in the run-up to the Bells!
VE day 9th May 2020 Kilmacolm Bagpipes
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The tune is called VE75 written specially for the 75th anniversary of the end of WW2
Battle's O'er in slow time for VE 75 day Kilmacolm Bagpipes
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Battle's Over in Slow Time for VE75 day
Scottish Pipers' Association Centenary 2020
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Scottish Pipers' Association Centenary 2020
Simply amazing...😢❤
Beautiful! 🎶
Classy send off . Nothing is as heartfelt as the pipes at a funeral. 💚 Rest in ☮️
Magnificent. What a loving send off. Bravo!
Every Scotsman dream
Zugegeben sehr schwierig ist er nicht, aber die Melodie ist schön und er diente beim Edinburgh Militär Tattoo schon als Lied für den einsamen Piper.
I love playing hymns on the pipes. They fit so well.
Very nice well played
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Brother I'm a piper, your timing .....perfect held and cut notes brilliant! but when they started singing the second verse...! Wow!
I am learning this tune on the pipes.
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It got me crying
They played us out of Falkirk Station to this in 1971. Always makes the hair stand up on my neck. Any of my old mates still going?
Who died?
A son of scotland.
@@davidmaclean1071. What’s his name?
RIP
Hi Tom! This is your student, Daniel Boreland. I both respect and admire you for your tuning to the modern frequency and still have a higher standard than most at your age! Honestly, some of the pipers in my first band have played really out of tune and were closer to your age!
Thanks for the compliment Daniel! I don't like blowing my own trumpet, but I am a full time professional piper/piping instructor and keep my pipes tuned to a very high standard, also because I am playing and/or teaching a lot it keeps the fingers going. I remember going to Islay when I was a boy and met the father of Neil McEachern, Gold Medallist, I think he was called James McEachern. He was in his eighties but was playing jigs on the practice chanter like a 20 yr old and he was an example to me. If I last that long I hope I can still do that! Anyway, your fingering is pretty good too, so keep up the good work!
Wonderful pipes, but now it is becoming difficult to read the comments as I think of my parents.
Who dided
A wee scotsman. Why you asking?
A son of scotland.
Good piper.
Tom Johnstone. Dvorjak's New World Symphony made extensive use of 19th century American music, including Negro spirituals. "Going Home" is one such. We only know of it because Dvorjak had captured and preserved it in his symphony. But he did not compose it.
In Orange County, Calif, the Highland Games are held on the Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day is meant to remember those who fell in military service to our country. Every year, the closing ceremonies have the massed bands play "Amazing Grace" -- the first time, I felt myself being propelled back when all the bands joined in. But then one year, a lone piper stepped forward and played "Going Home." I will remember that to my grave.
Thanks i start it tomorrow happy new year
Hello tom whats the first tune thanks
Hi Chris, It's the Meeting of the Waters. It's in Scots Guards Book 1 Page 233, although I play a slightly different version.
A beautiful way to say goodbye, r I p ,had the pipes at my dad's funeral,
Brilliant
Very moving and an "auld" Scottish saying "pity the man that canne hear the pipes". My favourites are black bear , Scotland the brave, blue bonnets o'er the border and only at funerals flowers of the forest. A curious uplifting one is the hebridean drinking song a pibroeach I think featured in the excellent film that warms the spirit on a cold December day from Compton mackenzie's film "whisky galore" watch it it's warming like a good dram !!!
Beautiful always enjoy the pipes
I am from USA and was fascinated to see how the dead are laid to rest in another country.
Hi Barbara. They do vary quite a bit. After that church ceremony we went to the cemetery and buried the deceased there and of course I played again. Quite often it is just at the crematorium and I would play in front of the hearse up to the door. Then stop, and play for the coffin going in. A bit different from my clip from "Murder by Decree" all these years ago!
Terrific that you got to play The Floors and not Amazing Grace. As a Highland piper and non-Highland pipe maker I love the lower pitch compared to today's microwave pipes.
I don’t wish to be a kill joy…..but it is not “Going Home”. It’s Dvorak’s New World Symphony. A moving piece of music still.
You are right. Dvorak is a genius.
Of course that’s the tune, but the hymn that was written to the tune by a former student of Dvorak is “Going Home”.
"The theme from the Largo was adapted into the spiritual-like song "Goin' Home" (often mistakenly considered a folk song or traditional spiritual) by Dvořák's pupil William Arms Fisher, who wrote the lyrics in 1922" - - Wikipedia. It's convenient, not wrong, to call it "Going Home". It's your own joy you kill.
The dislike's have no respect.
R.I.P
What a wonderful thing to have this "claim to fame" Tom. Christopher Plummer was a living legend. Nicely played too.
This song and Amazing Grace at my mom's
Had a piper at my father's funeral. Skye Boat Song was the tune.
7 years ago, the moments before the catholic procession began for my fathers funeral, the lights went out due to a severe windstorm. In a moment of quick thinking, the bagpiper played "Going Home" for the entrance as we carried his casket to the front of the church. It was a beautiful, touching moment for the humble WWII veteran.
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My grandfather was 14 during ww2, worked in the coal mines. This song played at his funeral too
Greatest Generation!
no one should dislike this vlog as they are coming home xx
Another great job well done
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Great Tom. Always remember when we met in Bologna.
Hi Pietro, yes those were the days! - Happy times with Willie Cochrane! All the best from Scotland!
@@BetterBagpipes All the best to you Tom, and if in future you'll come here in Ireland where I live now, please let me know.
@@PietroMalaguti Hi Pietro. I didn't know that you moved to Ireland. Where are you? You can email me at tompiperair@gmail.com
@@BetterBagpipes Now in the west, Manorhamilton. I'll write you by email for sure! Cheers!
Rest in Peace to the faithful departed may god lead you to heaven Amen.
This was very moving.
Now the day has ended. Beautiful.
Well done Tom ! Not so well done the film editor, who used the outside sound recording inside, so sound was out of sync with fingers !
yes - also kept repeating the tune too!
@@BetterBagpipes Could have been worse, Tom - an old friend and my second pipe major Gordon K. Speirs played the pipes on the film, "The Battle of Britain": he was asked to play "Scotland the Brave" but to play it really badly ! I know he was seething about that - he was a great piper (boy pipe major at Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, and former piper in the Gordon Highlanders.)
@@piperbob2 I remember Gordon from my early trips to London with Hughie McInnes - Buckingham Gate. My recollection is that Gordon managed the RAF club [I think]and that we all went back there for drinks afterwards. He was an excellent player!
@@BetterBagpipes Yes, Gordon took over from P/M Bob Hill (ex-Argylls during the 2nd WW, and ex-Scots Guards prior) as caretaker at the T.A. Centre at 206 Brompton Road, which I think housed the University of London Air Squadron (RAF), and was partly used as a place for rehearsals by TV companies. During the 60s and 70's, it was the hub of London piping - for the famous Bob Hill ceilidhs and the Scottish Piping Society of London, of which Gordon was the secretary. I really miss those days, memories cherished from my early experiences of piping in London - and yes, the 'Bratach Gorm' competitions, when they were held at the London Scottish Rgt. HQ in Buckingham Gate. I remember Hughie too, with great admiration , from my time with B.Cal.
Very well executed, expresses very well the moment of pain and sadness!
Nicely done, well played and pipes in pretty good tune, weather considering.
YOU played perfect not to fast or slow a piper indeed.
Thanks for your kind remarks!
R.I.P!
Another great video