Scottish Gurkha bagpipers from Kalimpong : a piece of Scotland in India!
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- Sumi school students - Sumians - put up a great show in Sikkim!
More accurately, the tunes being played appear to be the Skye Boat Song and Auld Lang Sine - both Scottish songs!
A bagpiper band performs during the Sikkim winter carnival in India. Viewer Naren Limbu rightly points out that "They are Gurkhas. Listen to the tunes of bagpipes - they are all from Nepali songs. Salute to Gurkhas from all over the world and a celebration of 200 years of the Gurkhas."
Sikkim gears up for its biggest event, Sikkim Winter Carnival 2014. The Sikkim Winter Carnival 2014 was jointly organized by Sikkim Tourism and Civil Aviation and Government of Sikkim and was started on Dec 14 till Dec 19. The annual tourism festival is one of the most popular events in the north east circuit. Main highlights are the various cultural events, music shows, arts and crafts exhibitions, unlimited adventure activities like paragliding, mountain biking, rock climbing and much more.
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Skye boat song than the hooray Henry's down south
Just love it too see the Pipes less somber and fun by equally brave soldiers! Gurkhas Rock!
They're students
My late father, Pipe Major Donald Ross Riddell taught many Gurkha soldiers to play the pipes in ww2... He said they were fine soldiers and gentlemen.
Indeed!
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My Father served with them in Burma. Held them in the highest regard. Cheers.
We love our pipers here in India. Today they are as much a part of Indian culture as they are of Scotland thanks to history.
This is my past school's band from kalimpong west Bengal its name is SUMI (SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY MISSION INSTITUTION) ....jai gorkha jai hind..
I have been a piper in a competing Scottish pipe band for 30 years. I don't comprehend what they are doing. It's so very removed from my "world". Their primary focus seems to be on entertaining the audience which I do not think is a bad thing.
Ilike it as a native Scot thank you all very much , brilliant , I recoginsed all the Scottish Tunes.
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IMpressive! I did not know there was such an organization.
Ah! The Skye Boat song of the Bonnie prince.
This is my school SUMI
N i fell to be proud to be
A Sumians
Hey all, The Skye Boat Song and Auld Lang Sine are both Scottish songs, very famous Scottish song actually. So not all the tunes you hear are Nepali as the description mentions. I do love every second of their performance! Thanks you for sharing. :)
+Aris Michelsen Noted, with gratitude! Our meta-tagger must not have recognized those age-hold and goose-bumpy tunes which we all grew up with! Change will be duly made...
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These Scottish influenced bands are a part of Indias DNA now. We have them from the military, police and down to the schools. I loved watching them.
I was in a pipe band for ten years here in Missouri,i think you guys are the greatest
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The rocking motion is ridiculous.
Brilliant
The orign of music ...
Here from an old movie called "Unconquered" with Gary Copper.
The ending is great. I won't spoil it.
Love bagpipes!
Sikkhim had a queen from San Francisco for a few years, married to the Sikkhim king.
Nice we miss those days
Bagpipe Band of Scottish Universities Mission Institution from Kalimpong, India
watching you all makes me nostalgic.Im blessed to be a part of SUMIAN.keep going.
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Its not the band name but those who are from SUMI school are called SUMIAN.
OK, thanks! Will credit them here, then!
However they are Gurkhas. Listen the tunes of bagpipes all from Nepali songs.. salute to Gurkhas from all over the world and 200 years of Gurkhas celebration.
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yep here all songs is nepali
Thank u all for watching ... M proud to be a sumian.. And I feel proud to say that I was there in the band.. One of the drummer was me.. Thank u all..
@@rahultamang2282 🙏🏻
Great fighter in world they don’t mess around god bless them all
I'm also piper for 5years Scottish/ 5years for gorkha too that was nice and great.
proud of sumi heroes
As a former pipe major of a grade 5 band and the son of a very good piper (and pipe sergeant) I love these Gurkha pipe bands. What a wonderful tradition. The chanters are out of tune but so what; it’s about the performance. Wonderful. These are probably Indian made pipes and drums. Lower pitched chanters as well as drums. I like the sound. More like the sounds of pipe bands from Scotland 50 years ago.. More like the old regimental and police pipe bands.
Wa wa wonderful kalimpong
Why do all the Indian pipes I see move back and forth when they play?
Weldon Gorkhas wonderful
Awesome !!!!!
brilliant!
Thank yor for showing s.u.m.i
so nice.. band
What is the name of this tune playing please tell me
What tartans are the Gurkhas wearing?
Samuel Johnson about the performance of a celebrated bagpipe-player: "Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible".
+Leo Cozijn I am told that a Scottish gentleman is one who can play the pipes but does not ;) I disagree :)
David MacDonald It's a matter of taste and consideration, I guess.
May I know which tune they played at 40 second
40 s Skie boat song, 47-48 s 'Yo nepali seera uchali'
I'm the drum commander of the band
can any 1 tell me which song the play at last sounds like hindi music, ???
It’s an upbeat version of a very famous old Nepali song called “Hera na Hera Kancha”. : )
I love pipers
SUMI heros..
What tune are they playing at 0:34
+Mark Thompson The Skye Boat Song.Abour Charles Edward Stuart "Bonny Prince Charlie"
Skye Boat Song
Scotland goes Bollywood eh
Great doing but why they are moving ?
+Urmila Rai they are a marching band with drums
Nice boys
This is my school sumi
Well done gents, hardy bunch the Gurkhas would not like to mess with them. Rather you guys play Skye boat song than the hooray Henry's down south who have now disappeared after having a look, I never seen or heard of a Gurkha look down his nose at the working class Scots.
I have only heard praise and people praise the Gurkhas, that they are tough as nails, beating hill racing records barefoot 💪👍
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Paranoia at its worst. Hooray Henrys don't play the bagpipes. There are quite a few Hooray Henrys in Scotland and they also don't play the bagpipes.
@@archiebald4717 These guys are doing their best, the hooray Henry’s North or south who are laughing at them if I remember this post correctly can all go forth and multiply.
This was 6 years ago, don’t see how it’s paranoia? But you have yourself a jolly good day Mr Archiebald, I won’t return fire as gave that up years ago as is waste of time getting riled up over social media comments.
I will do my best in future to word things more clearly, because I can’t figure out what I was trying to get through hear, must have been a hard shift??
@@archiebald4717 In a way it was fortuitous your comment, it made me look at the comments and the people I was referring to have gone away.
I wish you a great festive season and a happy new year Archibald 🥳 🎉👍
I mean the Shoulders .
When S .U.M.I boys go marching on ......................................................... well done
Many of the songs are traditional Scottish songs
hamm this tunes are nepali songs not traditional scottish songs listion first
German word for the day: dudelsack - bagpipe.
Its not cultural appropriation. it's cultural left overs.
Today son I have brought you here to see these soldiers blow a haggis up and make an awful noise, one day that could be you, bloody hell dad I wanted to be a sheep farmer.
Seriously, I would not like to fuck around with those guys on the battle field, soldiering first music second.
brutal piping,i wonder if the spectators were to here a professional grade one band if they could appreciate it
Not too good on the drums either but this is how India teaches it's pipers/drummers. Their drum solo is also atrocious sorry to say - I think they could do well with a few months at the Royal Marines School of Music.
We accept your words but Sir actually it's not our culture and we are a school band all of them are in grade or standard 8,9,10. Our school was established by Scottish Missionaries back in 1886 and the name of the school is Scottish Universities Mission Institution so we are just trying and still improving to keep the scottish culture alive in India.
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@@rockywr Sir we don't have specialist teacher here and no one is here to teach the notations
@@MrDahal-kr8jt cool
they aren't all Nepali tunes.....
They are not Gurkhas .
shut up those are gurkhas and from Nepal
guys, i'm an army bagpiper who's played alongside Gurhka pipers. These guys are NOT Gurkha's. Try google searching Gurkha bagpipers and you'll see a whole whack of Gurkha bagpipers, who are very distinguishable by the white tunics or rifle green tunics with crossed kukri's on the headdress.
These guys are a school band, and much respect to them, but if your going to come out and say these are Gurkhas's expect to be called out on your lack of research before opening your gobs.
You even have a picture of Gurkha riflemen as your profile picture! You mean to tell me you dont have a clue what Gurkha bagpipers wear as a uniform?
i would like to clarify that they are gurkhas but not in the army... they are school students.
Scottish Gurkha Pipers? Didn't know Scotland had Gurkhas???
Sir they are students from missionaries school viz. Scottish universite mission institution , kalimpong india
There is no such thing as a Scottish Gurkha!!
Scottish universities mission institute is school at kalimpong district which is westbengal gorkha hill council where nepali live and 11 GorkhaRifles sepoys bharti is eligibility only for gorkhas of kalimpong and darjeeling
they're wearing pants :I *disappointed*
They are not gurkhas
Sorry respected one it's kilt
@@shutup1219 We are Gorkha of Darjeeling (kalimpong, India)
And we are following the Scottish Culture as you can see the dress and some tunes. And we are School band of Scottish Universities Mission Institition (SUMI) Kalimpong, Darjeeling India
@@MrDahal-kr8jt well done I'm truly honored to see this amazing preformance.
@@MorrisonScotch thank you Sir.
bagwash
Firstly they are NOT Scottish Gurkhas, Scotland does not have Gurkhas, they come from Nepal. If they have learnt the bagpipes while serving in Scotland, then well done to them, the pipes are hard to learn. However, they did sound awful and out of tune in places. I have heard real pipers in Scotland, and they sound much better than these guys playing the pipes.
Sir they are students from Scottish universite mission institution kalimpong a missionary school established by Scottish missionaries 133 years ago.
No such thing as Scottish gorkha
Yeah yeah gorkha hill council scottish bhaneko hola
Not sure what these clowns are but they are neither Ghurkas nor Scottish, and to call them pipers is stretching it, too.
How dare you call them clowns. Have some manners, they are Scottish gurkhas.
Hey you how dare you tell them like this
With due respect to their enthusiasm, what they need are decent courses for their Pipe and Drum Majors respectively - pipers and drummers too. The standard of pipe bands in the sub-continent are pathetic and bear little resemblance to the military origins first brought there by Scottish regiments of the British Army. The armed and police forces are poor examples too. The drill movements are exaggerated and where they have learned that bandsmen in pipe bands have to roll their shoulders when marching is open to conjecture; it is a ridiculous practice and appears more comic than military. They should have a look at how proper highland pipe bands sound and appear; there are enough examples on TH-cam.
Let's just have a think about that. When were the pipes and drums brought to the sub continent? And when did the colonial scum get booted out?
What you see here is a bastardised version of what we are used to.
Typical English snobbery .
@@porothashawarma2339 Don't take this personally, what pipe-bands in India (and the rest of the sub-continent) do is, quite frankly, rubbish. What is your claim to expertise? They have the capacity to learn to do it properly, what is being said here is constructive criticism. In the 50s and 60s military and police pipe-bands in India were quite different to the sub-standard performances one sees today. Indian people, like you, accept this (because you don't know any better) and resent any suggestion of improvement as if it was criticism and a matter of national pride. Ceremonial drill in India, in general, needs an overall review. Over-exaggerated drill-movements are not smart. If you don't know the difference, be happy - ridiculous but happy.
@@warden2351 yeah I think you are saying right.
The British army Gurkhas are like the real iPhones and the Indian army ones are the fake made in China ones. Cheaper worse quality