# Just in case you haven't had enough bagpipes in your life lately **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 29, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705 "2020-11-29T00:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/81 "2020-12-30T01:36:51Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > If you’ve never seen this film you really should. It’s about a Christmas truce in WWI. Sorry, I somehow linked to the wrong scene. Here are the pipes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-cSrqRdlFeo/hqdefault.jpg "Christmas Truce of World War I -- Joyeux Noel [2005 film]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSrqRdlFeo) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/82 "2020-12-30T02:34:13Z")
Love that, Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/83 "2021-01-02T01:36:00Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yq7R2MBkqlk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHUBoAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgOyg2MA8=&rs=AOn4CLCrn8TQjumpfMHmIq0dVnWXGK3ioQ "The Massed Pipes & Drums - Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7R2MBkqlk) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/84 "2021-01-04T22:21:29Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3_40C4Q3Z9g/maxresdefault.jpg "Christmas Bagpipes - The Little Drummer Boy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_40C4Q3Z9g) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/85 "2021-01-16T22:22:05Z")
Great thread! The pipes of the Black Watch played on the South Lawn of the White House for President Kennedy in Nov. 1963; a few weeks later they took part in his funeral parade. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xxpYBH1Y61E/hqdefault.jpg "The Black Watch Band and Pipes, 13 November 1963") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxpYBH1Y61E) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/86 "2021-01-16T23:08:24Z")
Fun. Thank you, as always. Keep them coming. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/87 "2021-01-17T01:26:58Z")
Thanks! Can’t imagine allowing an unsheathed blade in proximity to the POTUS in current times! Great video. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/88 "2021-01-18T17:25:36Z")
Yes, it is. The Wiki article on the Black Watch says that they piped these four songs in the JFK funeral parade. I can’t find video of the Black Watch, in particular, playing them, but here they are. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8M80ob-uHQw/maxresdefault.jpg "The Brown Haired Maiden") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M80ob-uHQw) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jrLap64tf4c/hqdefault.jpg "Badge of Scotland") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLap64tf4c) Just the first one here: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MWlEvFKslpM/maxresdefault.jpg "51st Highland Division / Flett from Flotta / Bonnie Price Charlie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlEvFKslpM) And this: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WS34258cchc/maxresdefault.jpg "The Barren Rocks of Aden") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS34258cchc) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/89 "2021-01-18T17:40:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, it is. The Wiki article on the Black Watch says that they piped these four songs in the JFK funeral parade. I can’t find video of the Black Watch, in particular, playing them, but here they are. Here’s what I found about the Black Watch pipers’s tribute to President Kennedy’s funeral procession. Quite an honor they gave a young upstart nation. [https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/1745173/jfk-and-the-black-watch-battalions-lasting-bond-with-president-john-f-kennedy/](https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/1745173/jfk-and-the-black-watch-battalions-lasting-bond-with-president-john-f-kennedy/). This article adds two more pieces to the repertoire listed. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/90 "2021-01-18T18:04:55Z")
And this is a YouTube that, at approximately 32:00 is the newly formed US Air Force Pipe Band playing at graveside in Arlington. If you listen, at the end of the pipes is the sound of the AF jets flying overhead in honor. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nlio5K3sWXQ/hqdefault.jpg "USAF Pipe Band at the Funeral of President John F. Kennedy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlio5K3sWXQ) I was 13 at the time. I thought our country would recover and that nothing like it could happen again. Young, naive, silly me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/91 "2021-01-18T18:13:29Z")
The link you posted isn’t as long as you say. And no President has been assassinated since JFK, but I take your point. Certainly a lot has happened since then, much of it not for the good of the country. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/92 "2021-01-18T18:28:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The link you posted isn’t as long as you say. Thank you. I’m a neophyte at all of this and posted the wrong link. Try this one at about 32:20 for when the AF Pipe Band starts playing for the coffin being carried up to the grave. The jets overhead can be heard towards the end of the coffin being laid at the grave. If you know the name of the piece they are playing, please post or PM it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3KJQkn6zUvM/hqdefault.jpg "John F. Kennedy Funeral November 25, 1963") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJQkn6zUvM) Less than 10 years later I was a young adult living in Boston, Massachusetts, which gave me a whole new prospective to the meaning of President Kennedy’s life and death. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/93 "2021-01-18T18:46:10Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > If you know the name of the piece they are playing, please post or PM it. It’s called _The Mist-Covered Mountains_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/79qArmhlwzA/hqdefault.jpg "Mist-Covered Mountains, Scots Guards 1950") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79qArmhlwzA) ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/94 "2021-01-18T19:16:42Z")
Here’s a scene from _Local Hero (1983)_ with The Mist-Covered Mountains playing in the background. (Sorry, no bagpipes!) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ouqy4UnJjQo/hqdefault.jpg "mist covered mountains-Knopfler stile") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouqy4UnJjQo) It’s a really wonderful, gentle, funny, feel-good Scottish movie. Watch it if you haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/95 "2021-01-18T19:53:30Z")
Thanks. Just added it to my watch list. Always glad to have vetted recommendations. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/96 "2021-01-18T20:35:38Z")
Thanks for the JFK funeral second posting, **BBB**. You can briefly see and hear the Black Watch pipes at 22:42, as well. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/97 "2021-01-18T20:42:11Z")
Another piece that is very often played at funerals and commemorative services is _The Flowers of the Forest_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sCb_2FHj5T8/maxresdefault.jpg "The Menin gate - Ypres - Last post ceremony, piper. Flowers of the forest.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCb_2FHj5T8) The ‘Flowers of the Forest’ were the Archers of Ettrick Forest, the personal guards of King James IV. They were killed along with King James at the Battle of Flodden (1513), the greatest defeat in Scottish history. It’s said that only one out of the 80 guards survived. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/98 "2021-01-18T21:07:26Z")
Very moving - thanks. Here’s more on that site: > **[Menin Gate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menin_Gate)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > The Menin Gate (Dutch: Menenpoort), officially the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing\[a\], is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads that led Allied soldiers to the front line. > Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfiel... ---
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_Local Hero (1983)_ is one of my favorites and when asked about small movie gems that people generally don’t know, I put that one up there with “My Favorite Year”. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705/100 "2021-01-18T21:52:19Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Many, many different nations and cultures around the world use, or have used, bagpipes of one kind or another. My all time favorite piece is this one from the Riverdance show, with the Irish variation type of bagpipe, the Uilleann. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j3nxTrkiNmE/hqdefault.jpg "Awesome Irish Pipes River dance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nxTrkiNmE) In this case the air is not coming from the lungs of the performer, but the air in the bag comes from a bellows under the arm of the performer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-case-you-havent-had-enough-bagpipes-in-your-life-lately/926705.md?page=6)