What They Don't Say About the Piper's Lament
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- Bagpipes are an essential to Highland culture. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, tells the story of MacCrimmon's Lament, but asks is there a sadder tale still?
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Of course you should do a video on the history of the pipes Bruce! I dare anyone not to start tapping their feet when the pipes start sounding
They do stir our blood no doubt about that.
Been playing for 15 years and still gives me chills to play piobairchd (classical bagpipe music) that would have been played during the period of this video. Please make more video with bagpipes
Totally agree...stirs this old Gaels soul..best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E
Absolutely!
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I love the bagpipes. We were piped into the church, and out at the end, for our wedding. I would love an episode on the history of the bagpipes.
my next door neighbours are pipers, i keep telling them i have no problem with them practicing cos i love the pipes but i think they feel i`m just trying to be nice
We also
I have played bagpipes for some 55 years with a small chunk of that as a Military Piper. My grandmothers maternal lines flow from both Douglas’ and Henderson lines. MacCrimmonds Lament was and is my favourite piobaireachd. We learned the canntaireachd and I understood the depths of the sorrow implied. Thank you for such a beautiful telling of, what to us pipers, is a truly sad story.
My moms side is the Henderson from Glencoe , could we be possibly related?
A video on the history of the pipes would be awesome!! A few years ago several friends were camping up in the mountains of Washington state in the USA. As we sat around the campfire, there came a haunting sound through the forest. I looked across the fire at the only other person there with Scots ancestry, and without a word, we both stood up and walked down the road not believing what we knew we were hearing. About a half-mile down the road was a campsite with a lone piper playing. He was on a long holiday touring the states and had brought his pipes with him. We had been drawn by the sound of the pipes and sat listening to him for an hour or so before we walked back to camp. I doubt that I will ever forget the undeniable draw the sound of the pipes had when we heard them calling through the forest.
Brian, Bagpipes have the same effect on me!
MacCrimmon's Lament is also a beautiful song - I have sung it many times. My father was a piper, and used to get angry when people talked about "the skirl of the pipes" - to pipers of my father's generation, a skirl was the name of the sound a piper made when his/her fingers didn't cover the holes on the chanter properly and so didn't get a pure note. So when people talked about the skirl of the pipes, to my father that meant they were saying that the piper was making lots of mistakes. Perhaps you could share that in your video about the history of the bagpipes!
Good point well made....
Skirl is also when a bottom hand note like Low A or Low G makes a gurgling sound because the piper is blowing the reed too hard. Your dad was right though. It does show a lack of control of the instrument and "skirl" has always left me feeling the same.
Your father was absolutely right. Also, frying oatmeal and onions together makes a distinctive spluttering squeak - hence the name of the dish: "skirlie"
Yeah, my dad said on a couple of occasions that skirl referred to a mistake or tuning of the pipes, not the playing thereof. it wasn't until his funeral that I discovered that my Grandad 's name was Black, and my ancestry was Scottish.
I did not know that skirling was a reference to mistakes, I thought that's what the proper sound was called, what I don't care for is when the high A has too much screech.
yes, please do a history of bagpipes the sound stirs the blood of anyone with the slightest hint of Scottish Ancestry.
I suppose the sound of bagpipes stirs the souls of Latvians too: czcams.com/video/A2r-uspx6LM/video.html
I don't believe it matters the Ancestral decent.
The bagpipes would/should move the spirit within anyones heart.
We scattered my grandads ashes at the former RAF Brampton where he served alongside the Polish airforce in exile just prior of the Battle of Britain. The Army were in charge of the site and had given us permission to do so - we did it on November 11th. Just as we did, completely unexpectedly, a piper stepped out and played "Flowers of the Forest". I had managed not to cry until that moment.
when I was 5 I heard Highland Bagpipes for the first time. I still vividly remember how I felt that I had found Home when I heard them. I have loved bagpipes and Scotland with all my heart and soul ever since. Yes, please do a video about the history of bagpipes.
Excellent story, thank you Bruce.
The pipes always stir my blood even as a Scotland living englishman.
Also lucky enough to have a Clansman Piper as a friend, Spud the Piper. 😊
Definitely a video on piping. Great idea.
Would love a history vid on bagpipes. From what I remember even Henry VIII was mad on bag pipes (I was not present obviously but from a history book lol).
Personally I love listening to well played pipes, such an amazing instrument ❤️
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I'd be happy with one of those 8 hour 'fire-side' videos, but it's just bagpipes...
Even the Emperor Nero was reputed to have played them...
History brought to life with a quirkily good-humoured narrative! Many thanks to you, Bruce Fummey!
Glad you enjoyed it
Bruce the rich history of the bag pipes would be a great cultural opportunity to show one the oldest musical instruments going back to Hittites to the current era.
A'reyt Bruce. Despite being English I always quite liked the bagpipes. We have our own northern version. My half Irish girlfriend did, to my surprise, think otherwise when I brought her to Scotland on holiday, after we were woken each morning early by the very loud sound of a piper, though he did drone on a bit.
Like your well told story, the end result was alas wooly jackets one, noisy rackets nil.
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Don't forget the Northumbrian pipes, Alan ,mind you have always been a big fan of the Chieftains and the Uilainn pipes...slainte...E
@@eamonnclabby7067 A'reyt Eamonn. Exactly the pipes I was commenting on.
From your comment, I decided to Google Cumbrian pipes as I heard of them before too. I reckon you would be interested in the Wikipedia "definition".
@@alansmithee8831 nice to see you out there, Alan, the Chieftains did a great intro on Hergist ridge by Mike Oldfield...transports me too Ireland strangely enough...shades of Carrickfergus..
@@eamonnclabby7067 I grew up with someone who would listen to that sort of stuff on a folk music programme on the then new commercial station in Bradford, which did a late night of it once a week. Mind they were as likely to play their Pink Floyd records, like Ummagumma, with the track
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict".
Later I spent a lot of time in a local late night Irish bar with local groups who would try to copy "The Chieftains", " The Bothy Band" and other such groups.
The words "lock in" come to mind as the landlord's brother worked in my local pub. A friend from work used to help one of the groups that played there called "Scarlet Heights", who I just looked up and it seems are still out there.
History of bagpipes - absolutely my good man!
I can't wait to watch this. My grandmother used to tell me about the pipers lament (she was an Irish transplant in to a Scottish family), but I've been up editing all night (Ohio, USA). I NOW HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO WAKE UP! lol
I'm a McLeod from Australia. but this place fills so familiar to me like iv bin here before maybe in a past life. Yes to the bagpipes history.
Please do more about, with and on the Pipes. Vielen Dank for this Episode of getting a feel of Piping
what a sad story.
yes I do love bagpipes. the sound always sends a shiver down my spine. a good one that is.
Awesome video. I have to admit I choked up at the end. The blood of Scotland runs through my veins, straight to my heart.
There’s not a better sound than to listen to a set or sets of bagpipes and drums my uncle Alex was a pipe major I always love the sound of the bagpipes it’s a loving haunting sound with your foot tapping to the music
Of course! My heart leaps when I hear bagpipes, and I would love to know more about their history!😄
Waiting at the church for my Mum's funeral, the piper came from a distance, playing a lament.
I lost it, of course.
This was in Yorkshire, as it happens.
The piper also played those smaller pipes - baguettes?
Lovely sound. Dawn in Glencoe, the mist, and the pipes. Perhaps 400m away is about right.
Are you taking the Mickey? Baguettes are bread sticks!
@@barhambrummage539 most likely he palyed smallpipes, a bellow blown quieter version of the Great Highland Bagpipe, The French equivalent -a bellow blown abd pretty quiet instrument- is called "musett" as opposed to "baguette" , which is aform of bread, aye.
......but they ryme, so you can get sometimes confused
Here's waht a musette looks (and sounds ) like
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And here's three well knows lads playing the scottish smallpipes
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Uillean pipes.
As @mario guido tomasone says they were probably the smallpipes.
A traditional/ common lament played at funerals or on Remembrance Day is 'The Flowers of the Forest' czcams.com/video/KZKzUbIjr30/video.html&ab_channel=EpicBagpipeSound often the piper will walk away / round a corner so the sound fades away towards the end.
Hi Bruce. I’d love to hear more about the pipes, please.
I love bagpipes. I can't adequately explain the feeling I have when I hear them. A video on the history of bagpipes would be fabulous.
As a piper for 27 years, I have been steeped in the legends of the MacCrimmons and have always enjoyed playing piobaireachd, or Ceol Mor, the great music, the classical music of the bagpipes which was developed by the MacCrimmons. I just recently found out that I am a direct descendant or Rory Mor Macleod, who was chief of the clan MacLeod while the Macrimmons were the hereditary pipers. This video was excellent. Thank you.
Yes please!
Lots of pipers here in Orlando, Florida. You are our go to guy on Scottish history.
Absolutely do a history of bagpipes! There nothing to compare with their beautiful, unique and hauntingly mournful sound. The story of the MacCrimmons also highlights the tragedy of the clearances. Thank you for telling the story.
5 things were always on my Grandfathers mantle whilst I grew up here in sunny Southern California.
1. White Saltire and Azure Blue Flag of Scotland
2. MacLeod of Harris family crest with Tartan pattern “Hold fast” was written on it.
3. MacDonald Crest “Per Mare Per Terras “ with Tartan and a drawing of the battle of Harlaw
4. Nova Scotia flag, he was born there.
5. Michigan State Flag he was raised from an early age in the upper peninsula in Marquette.
Watching your videos these last years has given me some more insight into a heritage and people that my Grandfather was so proud of.
Thank you very much Bruce; I’d love to hear another story.
Love from Los Angeles California USA 🇺🇸 🫡🏴
A video of the history of bagpipes should in my opinium be an absolute must for a channel which has scottisch history and culture as a theme.
In my Dutch opinium bagpipes are the foundation of scottisch culture.
Every time I hear bagpipes I hear Scotland.
Wonderful story, Lord Bruce! Super audio and aerials of course! Indeed, everyone wants your bagpipes history!!
Glad you enjoyed it
I would love a history of bagpipes. I love the sound.
Lovely
I, too, love the bagpipes and would greatly enjoy a historical lesson from you. Thanks!
Great story Bruce, the pipes resonate in my soul. Interesting story, well told. Happy Saturday and good morning from America!
History of pipes? Yes please! 🏴🤩
Bagpipe music salves my soul! I guess it's my Scottish Ancestry! They just catch my attention when I hear them and I close my eyes and just enjoy whatever they're playing!
Vraye Foi (True Faith)! Baswell Family Clan Slogan!
I agree. Doing a video on the history/significance of Scottish bagpipes, makes perfect sense. I think everyone would be interested in that.
Oh my lands I love to hear bagpipes , beautiful sounds you can feel !
Yes, please make a video of the pipes! Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication!
I’m a Scot who was taken south by my parents when I was 9, now I’m 71 and proud of my country and ancestry. I love the pipes! So yes please laddie.
More on the pipes? Definitely! I love them, some hate them, but they are a fascinating instrument. Please do tell us that story.
"the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide"
I for one would be most interested in a history of the bagpipes!!
Yes. Please do a video on the history of the bagpipes. I'm an American with some Scottish ancestry and live in south Georgia. Many weddings and funerals in my area have pipers.
Absolutely love your videos. Best Scottish history channel on CZcams.
As a son of the Highland Clearances on one side of my family, and a son of a Transported Jacobite on the other side, I find this, and all of your videos very well done. I've read of these great battles, but hearing it from a historian/comedian takes a dry dusty tale, and puts one right there as it happened.
Thank you.
You're welcome
A beautiful video my friend.
The road & Dunvegan Castle takes you way back, helps to form a picture in your mind.
Thank you for telling me a story about your lovely Scotland. A place that has always been in my life thru books & music.
Stay FROSTY🌬
As a piper in a family of pipers, it is an overwhelming YES to a video on the history of the Piob Mhor, musical instrument and weapon of war!
I love the bagpipes, and would greatly appreciate a history of them!
Bruce are the history teacher everyone wanted at school , the energy you bring to the history is infectious and I can’t wait for your bagpipe video 😁
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Yes Please. Do a video of history of bagpipes! I'll watch.
Just found your channel and I'm loving it. My dad is Scottish and mother is English and at 33 years old you have lit a fire under my Scottish patriotism with your quiet and impartial stories.
I would love a history of the bagpipes video.
Brilliant
Aye Bruce! I would love to know more about the history of the Pipes...Tomorrow my wife and I will be celebrating our 40th wedding aniversary and we will be off to the local Highland Games and Fair in Enumclaw Washington to enjoy my heritage and view the field where the Bag Pipe Bands will march in formation for all to hear! Thank you again for your wonderful teachings about those things I love so much to understand.
I'm an American but bagpipes are hauntingly beautiful. I'd like a history of bagpipes.
Bagpipes history 👍
Love anything to do with music lol!😊💚🍀
I don't listen to it regularly but, I've always appreciated the sounds of bagpipges. I'd love to hear the history.
Yes a video on the history of the pipes would be fantastic! Absolutely love the pipes!
I do like the bagpipes. An interesting “ story” again, as well as some of your humor🤣👍 great scenery as well. Thank you.
I'd love to hear more about the bagpipes. I enjoyed this video. My father was a Mcleod and my mother was a Fraser but when my son was at high school he learnt the pipes from an excellent young piper Mr Jonathan Kalonga. Perhaps we can start new traditions and new piping families.
This brought tears to my eyes😢. I LOVE bagpipes! Please do more about this subject. 🙏🏴 Gorgeous video. Thank you, Bruce and team.
Thank you! Will do!
It was so wonderful seeing a video talking about the MacCrimmon’s, they were my ancestors so it’s always great to hear more about them 😊
Our pleasure!
My mother, a MacDonald from Nova Scotia, used to tell us to “listen for the bagpipes” when things got tough. Maybe that’s why I love them. So, yes, bagpipes, please.
Excellent video. Thank you! I'm a bagpipe teacher and will share this with my students.
I have adored bagpipe music since I was a wee child. My mother, who's maiden name is Logan, loved playing LP records on our turntable. One of my favorites was one of bagpipers and drummers. The music was mournful, joyful, and thrilling by turns.
My favorite was "Scotland the Brave" before I knew I was descended from Scottish ancestry.
As I grew I found out that there were McKinneys, Kirkpatricks, and Shaws on my father's side alone.
My mother's father was, of course, a Logan.
His ancestry was Scottish on his grandfather's side, and Irish on his grandmother's side.
I've actually got more Scottish ancestry on my father's side.
You’ve got a habit of making me cry!
Hearing the pipes anytime sets the blood to proud Scottish rolling boil!
It’s like spinach to Popeye!
Please do a series of histories on bagpipes, kilts, haggis, throwing telephone poles, soccer hooligans, fried Mars bars, and why Scots cannot say "purple burglar alarm"...
Thank you Bruce, love to here history of the pipes., two laments I play, Lord Lovats and Lochaber No More.
The sound of the pipes are truly magical 😊 ✌️
Agreed
world history is so cool i'm not Scottish but i love the sound of bagpipes and this story had me riveted
A video on the history of the pipes? Yes, please.
A history lesson on pipes would be awesome. Especially coming from you, Bruce.
"Lament for Iain Ruaidh" is my favorite, and is to be played as I am lowered in the grave.
Yes Bruce, please make us a video on the pipes. Many thanks.
Love these short documentaries! Passionate, knowledgeable and friendly. Keep them coming!
There are a few pipers in my family. My grandfather a McLeod from Lewis, my mom, brother, myself and a cousin all in Canada, all played pipes. Brother has played for most of his 70 years, so of course I’d love your bagpipe stories!💕
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Aye, I LOVE bagpipes! "Scotland the Brave" especially, gets me heart a' pumpin' !!! I have several CDs of bagpipe music, accompanied by no other instruments, except maybe drums; strathspeys, dances, marches, reels, pibrochs and laments. When I listen to pipe music, so does me neighbors! But I cannae help it. It's in me blud!
I love the pipes and, of course, do that video on the bagpipes! This is one Texas who would rather hear the pipes than the guitar.
A thrilling tale, well told.
A documentary on bagpipes would be loved by me because I love the sound of them
Well done sir, a popular choice, by the Scottish diasporas favourite Historian...Bard ..even ...plenty of pipers here on Merseyside...I think everyone would love your account of the history...peace and love..E
Definitely you should do a history on the pipes my papa was a pipe major and I still have family playing, even though I live in England the sound still makes me happy and proud
Thanks Bruce. As a piper of 23 years, (I also piped for the US Army) I have done a bit of research on the histories of individual pipe tunes from warfare. As I study Gàidhlig and the songs, many are matched to pipe tunes. This is very fascinating study for me. Keep doing what you're doing. Maybe even dig into some of the histories of the tunes (not songs). Slàinte a charaid.
All things must end, that's what makes things precious.
Its a lament for all that was gone, and all that is yet to be lost.
A great telling of this history. Thank You. And yes, more videos about the pipes, please.
Love the sound of the pipes. A history of them would be really interesting
YES! I wholeheartedly would like a video on the history of bagpipes!
Thank you for another interesting epsode. My gradnfather 5 generations back was a Jacobite. He died in North Carolina around 1740. He was the Chis of clan Chisholm
Absolutely!! Give us the history of the pipes.
Brilliant Bruce, love your videos. YES l think many would appreciate a more in-depth look at the Great Highland Bagpipe in It's natural Scottish setting. I love their repertoire. Over the past few hundred years music designed for their unique chanter scale, and built into it the geography and characters of the Highlands. The Lochaber Gathering, John MacDonald's welcome to South Uist, Leaving Glen Urquhart. Dr Ross's welcome to The Argyllshire Gathering. Lament for the Viscount of Dundee. Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness, Tullochgorm, Locheil's away to France. Brae's of Locheil. The Ewie Wi The Crookit Horn (a strathspey referring to an old whisky still). Marches, strathspeys, reels, Piobaireachd's, Jigs and so on. Other countries have other bagpipes, yes but please do the Great Highland version, If you can. Thanks.
Nice one ,sir, also partial to the Uilainn pipes ,but then as a big fan of the Chieftains why not...The Gurkhas aren't half bad either....slainte..E
Do you know one of the great but yet sad things about your channel, I’ve learned more in a few months watching your channel about our country than what I was taught at school about it over 13year period. Keep up the great work ✌🏻💙👊🏻
A perfect gem of a poignant Scottish story. So beautifully told, the camera work so effective. I’m sharing it with my McLeod cousins.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful lessons of Scottish History!
Yes, do a video on the history of BAGPIPES! I love them.
Some of the most beautiful music in the world
The scots carried their pipes all over the World, to wherever they went.
And the pipers among them carried the memory of Donald Ban MacCrimmon.
By blood I am a MacLaurin, although I would never be so cocky as to claim to be Scottish. I was born and raised in England to parents who were exiles from their South African homeland, and my father was a master of the Great Highland Bagpipes. He taught me about the MacCrimmons. My daughter is a folk singer, and she has performed the lament...and she loves it.
My father passed away just before the pandemic. I wish I had thought to have the tune played by the piper at his memorial, but instead I had requested his practice piece, The Barren Rocks of Aden, which he and I used to jam.
Thank you for the memory, and please do a piece on the history of the pipes.
My father was Gordon Law.
Yes. I do love the pipers. Let the history of pipers be continue...
Bruce, you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO do a video on the history of the bagpipes!! We all know it will be brilliant!!
I'm a Stewart living in Oregon, USA. Grandfather was born in Ontario, Canada. Not exactly how he got there but was a Drugist in Rouleau, Canada. Love the pipes and would like to learn more about them.
Thank you for the video. A big Yes Please for a history of the pipes. I love their sound and you always make interesting and entertaining videos.
I love the sound of bagpipes. They speak to my soul. Would love a lesson on the history of the bagpipes.
I for one would love a video on the history of the magnificent bagpipes. Cannae wait 😍😎
From Edmonton, Alberta, Canada... Yes! I would love to see a history of the pipes, please.
I really enjoy the stories you do, from the land of my forefathers, that I will never see.
Thank you
Rick Reid
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