I’ve said this before, I’m English and very proud to be, but, irrespective of where you’re from, the sound and sight of Scottish regiments makes any normal persons hairs stand up on the back of their neck. These people are something to be truly proud of 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
As a United States Marine Combat Veteran I am deeply proud of my Corps' tradition...then I see these guys whose traditions started over 100 years BEFORE my Corps...Damn I get goosebumps!!!!
@Josef Hyatt not meant to look like i was bad mouthing you. Just looks strange that one of the best battalions in the british army is not as old as the US Marine Corps. Semper Fi.
My Father served in the Black Watch and hearing the pipes take me back to seeing him being emotional every time he heard them! You can’t beat the sound!
As someone who has played in Pipe Bands for over 40 years I love seeing the "behind the curtain" part of the Pipe Corps tuning up. The public always sees the finished product- a well tuned Pipe Corps- but doesn't generally see the process involved in achieving that. Thanks for posting this!
Been there done that. Acting pipe major at many parades and tuned the pipes. Nothing like weather to change the tuning. Played in one parade when reeds froze. Chanter reeds in mouth to thaw. Tuning out the window.
@@michaelholden5131 The pipes are like any other instrument: the best players have flawless tuning, the worst players have horrendous tuning, and everybody else is somewhere in between. Tuning is tuning, good musicianship is good musicianship, regardless of the instrument. Any "mainstream" musician can perceive this range of tuning quality in a symphony orchestra, a school band, or a Pipes & Drums.
@@colleengunn3934 Yes pipers are always fighting the weather! Because a sax player (for example) can "blow the note into tune" but a bagpiper can't, because the piper's lips aren't in direct contact with the reed. Thus with the pipes it's all about preparation.
As a retired US Marine, I NEVER tire of watching the Black Watch on parade. I've seen them live in Baton Rouge, with the Royal Marines, in 1976, and again a few years later. Always inspiring! I salute them again! Semper Fidelis! CWO4 USMCR [Ret] 17 February 1969 - 1 August 2004
I’m English when I watch the Scot’s particularly the blackwatch with the noise of the bagpipes I’m honoured to be neighbours with such a proud nation of Scotland
@TalorcMacAllan-rj3nr my friend my daughter lives in Forres moray wow there’s very few places I’ve visited that can compare it’s beautiful but Christ do the people like to have a few drams 🤣
I served with these guys from 1994 to 1998. I feel beyond honoured and my love of them and the pipes will always be with me. I will never forget the first time I heard Highland Cathedral. All the best to my colleagues and friends of the Black Watch. "SMELLEY"
Been back 16 times since. I just hope that the handover was the right thing in the end?. If you are saying it was then all the best to you. I will of course be back at some point. Not sure which part but it feels like another home when I am there.
@@maringarvanovic8011 Im living in HK for 40 yrs. I believe handover is the worst thing. Time proved that. And do not agree handover should be arranged. We love queen more than someone. Thank you for efforts service Uk and Hk.
I am really sorry for you. I looked into the history of the handover and found out that the UK only needed to hand back Kowloon and not the Island of Hong Kong. That would have been interesting?.
I never truly understood , although moved by the skirl o' the pipes, {my dad was a Scot }.. but as a musician invited to play at an officers private dance & after party at a Naval base, they shook me to the core ; the officer organizing- motioned me out into a backyard where a dozen Black Watch pipers had assembled, ready to make a surprize spectacular entrance on guests. They were all very large brawney men ( Hardy fellows indeed dressed as you see here) all well over 6 feet and some 6' 4" or 5"--The immediate sense of masculine power & purpose, steely eyes & resolute demeanour was absolutely intimidating. As they donned their bearskins, appearing suddenly 8ft tall & with short drum roll they formed into a rank of 3men by 4 ; then the skirl commenced and their pipes rose into a crescendo , I had never before known such a feeling of fear that arose in me, as they marched forward in a slow step-march...Pity on all who were ever awakened at dawn to see & hear this howling Banshee tribe with claymores glinting & flashing in the first rays of sunlight. Arrrgh !
Sorry mate. The idea of there being so many 6 footers, never mind 6'4" plus in such a small sample of Scotsmen is ridiculous. We are very small of stature as a nation. Anyone over 6"4" in Scotland is exceedingly rare. Glad you enjoyed it all the same.
My dad (from the isle of wight) was put in the Black watch during the war to make up their numbers from people being killed ..I have a picture of him wearing the kilt and everything. Don't know the story ..he never really wanted to talk about the war.
@@peterjol I hadn't realised they had conscripted men from the South, my own father was a Scot ... however, he, like your father, never talked about the war ..... I think this was a common thread among the military and it's not difficult to see why .... brave men, living through a nightmare .... I salute their memory.
Great effort by The Watch! Superb- what a sight and sound. Nothing more impressive, smarter or formidable than the sight and sound of Highlander's on the march. Huge *RESPECT* from England.
Served in the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion, sister Battalion to the 42nd Blackwatch Battalion, we had the Pipes and 🥁 come over to Australia, marching behind them was the most memorable experience.
To all the veterans and those serving, you are special indeed and thank you for protecting your own countries but the West in general. My late father told me of the time the force was tired and marching back to base. Two pipers were sent out to accompany the men back and they had a great uplifting effect.
Anen to that! I was in a U.S. Army unit coming in from a tough two week field operation and we were dragging ourselves in! Exhausted, swear soaked, dirty, dusky, bleary eyed. But we had a Pipe detachment and when they fell in behind us and blew on the pipes every mans back snapped up straight and strong, we naturally fell into perfect step, shoulders came back heads held up, eyes fixed dead ahead! We moved as one at a medium toi fast pace paced perfectly aligned, arms swing together, we bad it all. Pride in every step, determination, strength, endurance and a military baring to match anyone else! Those pipes picked us up, to a man, and carried us to our final destination looking every inch a first rate company of Unuted States Army SOLDIERS!!!!
The Black Watch was our partnership unit at the end of my tour in West Berlin when the Berlin Wall still stood. One of the best parts of serving there was the opportunity to work with our British and French teammates.
@@JimRamsayJWR The Sad thing is the Regiment of the Black watch no longer exists. I know that there are Company's within the Royal Regiment of Scotland BUT!!!
Aye, and in everyday life's grim battles. The the glorious, fierce sound of the pipes and drums certainly raises one's resolve to fight to the death. Such an influence during my childhood (my father had dozens of the finest LPs of the Scottish Regiments, which we listened to regularly) helped me to survive and fight some of my worst experiences.
My uncle was captured at ST VALERY WITH the black watch royal highlanders 51st highland division 1940 he spent 5 years in a German stalag in Poland he escaped 3 times he was arrested on the tram by the German secret police he could speak fluent German by that time he never lost his German right up until his death at 85 he was a train driver with BR in Scotland 🏴 I was his fireman on many shifts wonderful stories he told my father in law was with the ARGYLLS IN CYPRUS FIGHTING AGAINST THE Aoka terrorists. Ment to say he was arrested in Berlin
As a young kid my Dad took me to see a performance of the Black Watch in an outdoor stadium. I never forgot that performance and I still to his day get goose bumps and the hairs on my arms stand up when I hear the sound of all those pipes. Oh, and my middle name is Scott. Does that count?
My mom and dad took us to Scotland, France and England when I was young. We stayed with pen pals in Scotland. Listening to the bagpipes makes me cry sometimes.
Really nice work, Jim. As a military veteran and a so-so piper I learned that in order to stand at attention for an hour or better you had better remember to never lock your knees in place, otherwise when you regain consciousness you will find yourself on the ground! Ha!
I love the Black Watch, (pipes are banned in a warzone by UN). In Tasmania in a socialogical and legal corrupt war, I played a cd at full volume, of the Black Watch Band and drank a bottle of Black Douglas Whiskey. I was in a war against corruption, GOD BLESS SCOTLAND, Owen Allen.
I remember my grandfathers shield for his kilt. He tought me to play the bagpipes Too 😂. I remember all these songs my Dads too. Befo😢 before my Do's I we would read a verse out of My Robby Burns Book my grandfather gave to me.
Far from the instrument we know today, bagpipes were originally used to scare off enemies on the battlefield. Interestingly, bagpipes are the only known musical instrument in history to have been used as a weapon of war.
I attended a war graves memorial tour some years back. At one of the other cemeteries the pipes were being played, I could just hear them, but it chilled me to my bones, so eerie
My grandfather and piper Stuart piped the troops over the Johor causeway in Singapore with the Japanese on their heels, they piped the Gordon highlanders Australian brigade and then Argylls over before the bridge was blown . I love the sound of the pipes
I played in the pipe and drum band for five years. What they doing is the pipe major just taking each persons chanter to make sure that it is at the same pitch of the other chanters.
I do hope that Antecedent Dress for the Pipes & Drums is never abolished. And if it is, I hope that the Royal Regiment of Scotland goes with Royal Stewart for all pipers. Even the Cameron Highlanders pipers wore Royal Stewart at one point.
My father was a Queens Own Cameron Highlander. He was killed in the Dieppe Raid 19th.August 1942. I was three weeks old when he left Canada to go to England. PS: I forgot to say my family is from the Stewart Clan.
I'm a rabidly Proud Englishman but the pipes? Different level of pride and tradition. To misquote a great man, I don't know about the enemy but by God the frighten me. I have more respect for the RRS ( Or more accurately their antecedent regiments) than I have for certain English units. You'll never see a jock bottle a fight. Whas like us? Damn few an they're a'deid.. Don't ever leave us
As always Jim, great stuff! Our mom (maiden name, Vint) instilled in us an appreciation of the pipes. Her 2-times (?) great-grandfather Benjamin Vint served with the 42nd Regiment of Foot during the wars against Napoleon, then emigrated to Canada (Ontario) in the 1820s. I'm hoping you might answer 2 questions re this video. What is sticking up from the glengarry caps of all the troopers? And why aren't the pipers wearing the black watch kilt? Seems the pipe major is wearing it. Thanks and please keep the vids coming!
I think any musician with a good "ear" can tell how well-tuned anything is, whether it's a singer or piano or High School marching band or professional symphony orchestra or bagpipe band. All musical tones have the same physics and are perceived by the ear in the same way. I've had this proved to me several times when musicians (jazz or classical or whatever) have demonstrated the ability to hear in perfect detail all the tuning things going on in a bagpipe band.
My connection was as a REME vehicle mechanic when In Werl West Germany my first posting i was too young to appreciate the P&D at the time as being an Englishman
They've combined the proud Scottish units down in to one small unit. So are they only ceremonial units? Or do members wear the uniform of the unit that is no longer functional for the day ane pretend they still exist? Do the bands of the Black Watch, A&S, Camerons, RHF. Royal Scots, KOSB, Gordons and Seyforth exist?
The Black Watch is the 3rd Battillion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. (3 Scots) definitely not only ceremonial. Can't really imagine a 5 star Genral telling the colonel of the Black Watch that his Battillion is being disbanded. General would be on the floor before he knew what hit him! 😂😂
All those regiments still exist but they exist as part of one big regiment, each regiment has fewer numbers than they had before the amalgamation of the regiments....all about defense cut backs.
Name of song at 6:51? Enjoying these videos so much!! Thank you for sharing them!! I hope one day to save up enough to travel to Scotland! My ancestors left a couple hundred years ago, but hearing bag pipes directly connects my heart and soul to Scotland.
@@oggie1967 The 3SCOTS, the current descendant of the Black Watch, still wear the red hackle. When the Royal Regiment of Scotland was created in 2006 each Battalion was given a different hackle colour, 1SCOTS black, 2SCOTS white, 3SCOTS red (continuing the Black Watch) 4SCOTS blue (continuing the Cameron Highlanders) 5SCOTS green, 6 SCOTS grey, 7SCOTS purple.
A guy that I worked with was in the army at the end of the war he had the job of destroying all of the captured weapons , he had a fiddle going where he was selling guns that he had declared were destroyed, ...he got caught, and was doing a long stretch in barlinie, after a while he was asked if he would rather do his time in prison, or , back in the army , he chose the army , and was enlisted in the black watch, and then packed off to Korea, .....he did not like it there , he said 20 million Chinese had his photo in their wallets with instructions to kill this man , he survived and was travelling to the docks in a truck to come home when it hit a mine , he had bad injuries to both legs , he always said he should have stayed in prison, and #@%k the black watch , he was one of life's characters,
The elaborate uniforms and the traditions they represent are beautiful, but a distraction. The real message is: If you meet The Black Watch in combat your are going to get F*ed up. These are hard core soldiers. They have my utmost respect.
The story has it that a German soldier, wholy unfamiliar with Scottish military traditions wrote in WW1 "We heard this strange whirling music and looked out of our trenches to see all these men dressed in skirts advancing on us. How we laughed! But we did not laugh for very long, and nor did we laugh when we saw them again!"
Someone, please explain these men are in red plaid kilts, yet the Black Watch is green and black kilts ? They do have black and green pipe bags though. Maybe it's because they were escorting the crown of Scotland?
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I’ve said this before, I’m English and very proud to be, but, irrespective of where you’re from, the sound and sight of Scottish regiments makes any normal persons hairs stand up on the back of their neck.
These people are something to be truly proud of 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
👍👍👍👍
Yes, because these regiments helped to secure Great Britain et al...I am English too.
@@davemathews7890 wow, what a weird, dumb reply
@@davemathews7890 terwat
@@mercian7 Thank you.
As a United States Marine Combat Veteran I am deeply proud of my Corps' tradition...then I see these guys whose traditions started over 100 years BEFORE my Corps...Damn I get goosebumps!!!!
US marine corps. 1775.
The black watch 1881.
Go figure.
@@paulross1296 I meant the entirety of The British Army, they have captured colors that are older than my country!
@Josef Hyatt not meant to look like i was bad mouthing you. Just looks strange that one of the best battalions in the british army is not as old as the US Marine Corps. Semper Fi.
@@paulross1296 black watch 1725.
Combat Veteran, so you were an 0311 (Infantry)?
My Father served in the Black Watch and hearing the pipes take me back to seeing him being emotional every time he heard them!
You can’t beat the sound!
As someone who has played in Pipe Bands for over 40 years I love seeing the "behind the curtain" part of the Pipe Corps tuning up. The public always sees the finished product- a well tuned Pipe Corps- but doesn't generally see the process involved in achieving that. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for the comment pan
Been there done that. Acting pipe major at many parades and tuned the pipes. Nothing like weather to change the tuning. Played in one parade when reeds froze. Chanter reeds in mouth to thaw. Tuning out the window.
How the hell can ya tell if they are in tune? Sounds like my 5th grade horn band practice! A joke folks; I really do enjoy hearing the pipes.
@@michaelholden5131 The pipes are like any other instrument: the best players have flawless tuning, the worst players have horrendous tuning, and everybody else is somewhere in between. Tuning is tuning, good musicianship is good musicianship, regardless of the instrument. Any "mainstream" musician can perceive this range of tuning quality in a symphony orchestra, a school band, or a Pipes & Drums.
@@colleengunn3934 Yes pipers are always fighting the weather! Because a sax player (for example) can "blow the note into tune" but a bagpiper can't, because the piper's lips aren't in direct contact with the reed. Thus with the pipes it's all about preparation.
American through and through, but my Scottish ancestry and Pipes makes my heart proud
As a retired US Marine, I NEVER tire of watching the Black Watch on parade. I've seen them live in Baton Rouge, with the Royal Marines, in 1976, and again a few years later. Always inspiring! I salute them again! Semper Fidelis! CWO4 USMCR [Ret] 17 February 1969 - 1 August 2004
Thank you for your service not only to the USA. but for the defence of the West in general.
@@AnthonySpringall Indeed
Holy crap you went all the way to warrant officer four? That is amazing. Good hustle bud.
I’m English when I watch the Scot’s particularly the blackwatch with the noise of the bagpipes I’m honoured to be neighbours with such a proud nation of Scotland
@TalorcMacAllan-rj3nr my friend my daughter lives in Forres moray wow there’s very few places I’ve visited that can compare it’s beautiful but Christ do the people like to have a few drams 🤣
I served with these guys from 1994 to 1998. I feel beyond honoured and my love of them and the pipes will always be with me. I will never forget the first time I heard Highland Cathedral.
All the best to my colleagues and friends of the Black Watch. "SMELLEY"
Thank you for the service to the UK but also in the defence of the West in general.
seems you have come to HK in 1997 for handover👍thank u so much.
Been back 16 times since. I just hope that the handover was the right thing in the end?. If you are saying it was then all the best to you. I will of course be back at some point. Not sure which part but it feels like another home when I am there.
@@maringarvanovic8011 Im living in HK for 40 yrs. I believe handover is the worst thing. Time proved that. And do not agree handover should be arranged. We love queen more than someone. Thank you for efforts service Uk and Hk.
I am really sorry for you. I looked into the history of the handover and found out that the UK only needed to hand back Kowloon and not the Island of Hong Kong. That would have been interesting?.
I never truly understood , although moved by the skirl o' the pipes, {my dad was a Scot }.. but as a musician invited to play at an officers private dance & after party at a Naval base, they shook me to the core ; the officer organizing- motioned me out into a backyard where a dozen Black Watch pipers had assembled, ready to make a surprize spectacular entrance on guests. They were all very large brawney men ( Hardy fellows indeed dressed as you see here) all well over 6 feet and some 6' 4" or 5"--The immediate sense of masculine power & purpose, steely eyes & resolute demeanour was absolutely intimidating. As they donned their bearskins, appearing suddenly 8ft tall & with short drum roll they formed into a rank of 3men by 4 ; then the skirl commenced and their pipes rose into a crescendo , I had never before known such a feeling of fear that arose in me, as they marched forward in a slow step-march...Pity on all who were ever awakened at dawn to see & hear this howling Banshee tribe with claymores glinting & flashing in the first rays of sunlight. Arrrgh !
Splendid description!!!
Sorry mate. The idea of there being so many 6 footers, never mind 6'4" plus in such a small sample of Scotsmen is ridiculous. We are very small of stature as a nation. Anyone over 6"4" in Scotland is exceedingly rare. Glad you enjoyed it all the same.
I told the Truth, they were obviously picked out to be an impressive squad.
My father was in the Black Watch, so it was a real treat to see his regiment in such fine fettle. Thank you for this and much respect to the soldiers.
My dad (from the isle of wight) was put in the Black watch during the war to make up their numbers from people being killed ..I have a picture of him wearing the kilt and everything. Don't know the story ..he never really wanted to talk about the war.
@@peterjol I hadn't realised they had conscripted men from the South, my own father was a Scot ... however, he, like your father, never talked about the war ..... I think this was a common thread among the military and it's not difficult to see why .... brave men, living through a nightmare .... I salute their memory.
Great effort by The Watch! Superb- what a sight and sound. Nothing more impressive, smarter or formidable than the sight and sound of Highlander's on the march. Huge *RESPECT* from England.
My son served in the black watch he also took part in the Edinburgh tattoo one very very proud dad all the lads were gleaming 👏👏👏😊
Served in the 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion, sister Battalion to the 42nd Blackwatch Battalion, we had the Pipes and 🥁 come over to Australia, marching behind them was the most memorable experience.
I love marching behind any military band but the pipes and drums beat the lot for me and I'm English.
Nothing stirs the heart of a man like the pipes.
To all the veterans and those serving, you are special indeed and thank you for protecting your own countries but the West in general. My late father told me of the time the force was tired and marching back to base. Two pipers were sent out to accompany the men back and they had a great uplifting effect.
Anen to that! I was in a U.S. Army unit coming in from a tough two week field operation and we were dragging ourselves in! Exhausted, swear soaked, dirty, dusky, bleary eyed. But we had a Pipe detachment and when they fell in behind us and blew on the pipes every mans back snapped up straight and strong, we naturally fell into perfect step, shoulders came back heads held up, eyes fixed dead ahead! We moved as one at a medium toi fast pace paced perfectly aligned, arms swing together, we bad it all. Pride in every step, determination, strength, endurance and a military baring to match anyone else!
Those pipes picked us up, to a man, and carried us to our final destination looking every inch a first rate company of Unuted States Army SOLDIERS!!!!
@@morganpirate9127- that is so heart-warming. God bless you all for your service. 🏴🇬🇧
The Black Watch was our partnership unit at the end of my tour in West Berlin when the Berlin Wall still stood. One of the best parts of serving there was the opportunity to work with our British and French teammates.
Even the name of that regiment is awesome and the pipes and drums are astounding! Go SCOTS forever!
I live in the US but am of Irish and Scottish heritage and I am so drawn to the pipes. Can't get enough of it!!!
Black watch are incredible powerful,i get emotional just hearing them they are simply the greatest
During the I think first world war the Germans called them the ladies from hell. Giving their regimental history I reckon that was apt
I never get tired of seeing the Black Watch on parade. Thanks for sharing Jim!
Cheers Mark!
@@JimRamsayJWR The Sad thing is the Regiment of the Black watch no longer exists. I know that there are Company's within the Royal Regiment of Scotland BUT!!!
@@hyime69 what happened to it?
The skirl of the pipes is enough to warm ever warrior’s heart and steel their resolve for victory.
Aye, and in everyday life's grim battles. The the glorious, fierce sound of the pipes and drums certainly raises one's resolve to fight to the death. Such an influence during my childhood (my father had dozens of the finest LPs of the Scottish Regiments, which we listened to regularly) helped me to survive and fight some of my worst experiences.
What an amazing sight……we are so lucky to have such a colourful history!!
My father is a veteran of the Black Watch, serving in Cyprus fighting against Aoka terrorists.
Makes you proud to be a Scot!👍👏👏👏🏴🇬🇧
My uncle was captured at ST VALERY WITH the black watch royal highlanders 51st highland division 1940 he spent 5 years in a German stalag in Poland he escaped 3 times he was arrested on the tram by the German secret police he could speak fluent German by that time he never lost his German right up until his death at 85 he was a train driver with BR in Scotland 🏴 I was his fireman on many shifts wonderful stories he told my father in law was with the ARGYLLS IN CYPRUS FIGHTING AGAINST THE Aoka terrorists. Ment to say he was arrested in Berlin
Most famous regiment in the British Army.
Love the Bagpipes, sound is so haunting.
I have heard it defined as "an ill wind that nobody blows any good".
As a young kid my Dad took me to see a performance of the Black Watch in an outdoor stadium. I never forgot that performance and I still to his day get goose bumps and the hairs on my arms stand up when I hear the sound of all those pipes. Oh, and my middle name is Scott. Does that count?
My stepfather who fought in WWII said when the Germans heard the bagpipes, it put fear into them!
I'm a scouse
- english. I lived & worked in Scotland for10 years.
Scotland I Will Always Hold You In My Heart. 🫡 🇬🇧
I was born in Belfast in 1975 my parents were both Irish born Americans. I wear the black watch tartan in my kilt since we have no family colours
From the English Midlands! Cmon Scotland!!!! Proud brothers in arms!!!!
I find the sound of the pipes an emotional time, these guys are the tops.
My mom and dad took us to Scotland, France and England when I was young. We stayed with pen pals in Scotland. Listening to the bagpipes makes me cry sometimes.
I’m glad my family didn’t walk in and see me crying like that.
@@tristancleer9697 I know that feeling, two notes in and I'm gone😢😢😭😭
As always, sir, you capture the true spirit of the pipes and drums!! hank you very much!
Thanks for your kind comment Daniel!
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Really nice work, Jim. As a military veteran and a so-so piper I learned that in order to stand at attention for an hour or better you had better remember to never lock your knees in place, otherwise when you regain consciousness you will find yourself on the ground! Ha!
I love the Black Watch, (pipes are banned in a warzone by UN). In Tasmania in a socialogical and legal corrupt war, I played a cd at full volume, of the Black Watch Band and drank a bottle of Black Douglas Whiskey. I was in a war against corruption, GOD BLESS SCOTLAND, Owen Allen.
Well if you drank whiskey it was Irish. Scotch whisky doesn't have an 'e'.
The little guy at the back. The type you don't mess with.
A few folks have made that point
It's always the smallest ones. 😂
Big thank you Jim for what you do
Big thank you Beverley for your kind comment!
Love the ostrich feathers blowing in the breeze. Beautiful!
In South Africa the Transvaal Scottish affiliate Black Watch regiment is still in existence and recruiting.
I remember my grandfathers shield for his kilt. He tought me to play the bagpipes Too 😂. I remember all these songs my Dads too. Befo😢 before my Do's I we would read a verse out of My Robby Burns Book my grandfather gave to me.
Once a Reg force regiment we are still lucky to have a Black Watch Reserve Reg in Canada, some history they haven' t eradicated yet.
Absolutely fantastic thank you Jim
Glad you enjoyed it
Far from the instrument we know today, bagpipes were originally used to scare off enemies on the battlefield. Interestingly, bagpipes are the only known musical instrument in history to have been used as a weapon of war.
Can you imagine how warriors through the years reacted when they heard this in the distance and coming their way!?!
I attended a war graves memorial tour some years back. At one of the other cemeteries the pipes were being played, I could just hear them, but it chilled me to my bones, so eerie
My grandfather and piper Stuart piped the troops over the Johor causeway in Singapore with the Japanese on their heels, they piped the Gordon highlanders Australian brigade and then Argylls over before the bridge was blown . I love the sound of the pipes
I played in the pipe and drum band for five years. What they doing is the pipe major just taking each persons chanter to make sure that it is at the same pitch of the other chanters.
I’m australian but my great grandfathers brother was in the blackwatch in the great war. Struthers brown from cowdenbeath? Great warriors?
I do hope that Antecedent Dress for the Pipes & Drums is never abolished. And if it is, I hope that the Royal Regiment of Scotland goes with Royal Stewart for all pipers. Even the Cameron Highlanders pipers wore Royal Stewart at one point.
My father was a Queens Own Cameron Highlander. He was killed in the Dieppe Raid 19th.August 1942. I was three weeks old when he left Canada to go to England.
PS:
I forgot to say my family is from the Stewart Clan.
From Buzz in Canada ,wonderful well done. I know the hours of hard work you put in to perform and I appreciate.that very much.
Nicely done Jim as always mate.👍
Return the Black Watch to full strength would be a good move.
What's it kept at currently out of curiosity
@@joshschneider9766battalion strength in a super regiment
I'm a rabidly Proud Englishman but the pipes? Different level of pride and tradition. To misquote a great man, I don't know about the enemy but by God the frighten me. I have more respect for the RRS ( Or more accurately their antecedent regiments) than I have for certain English units. You'll never see a jock bottle a fight. Whas like us? Damn few an they're a'deid.. Don't ever leave us
I served with the Black Watch. The Black Watch has a Five-Tassel Sporran.
I am an ex soldier from way back in the 1960's, the Black Watch pipe band playing The Black Bear raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
My father lifted mines at El Alemain. When the infantry went in the pipes could be heard right along the line.
My Papa was a Piper in the black watch during ww2
Hope you have pictures of him that are well preserved.
What a classic Drum Major!
You can’t beat the pipes love them.
My dad was in the senior service based in Rosyth in WW2, he had such admiration for the Scots.
My respect, no other army in the world is able to march so impressive like this. 👍👍👍
Love the Pipes! 1st Scots (NZ) Armoured here for life! 🙏💪💯
Bet the parachute regiment wish they had this to go to battle to. We are all envious of the Scottish battalions etc
Hauntingly beautiful 💕
Absolutely stunning thank you
As always Jim, great stuff! Our mom (maiden name, Vint) instilled in us an appreciation of the pipes. Her 2-times (?) great-grandfather Benjamin Vint served with the 42nd Regiment of Foot during the wars against Napoleon, then emigrated to Canada (Ontario) in the 1820s. I'm hoping you might answer 2 questions re this video. What is sticking up from the glengarry caps of all the troopers? And why aren't the pipers wearing the black watch kilt? Seems the pipe major is wearing it. Thanks and please keep the vids coming!
Magnificent,.... Gets my Scot/Irish roots with a significant amount of English/German and Welsh with splash of Norwegian blood flowing.
excellent Jim as per usual.
Muito bom excelente exemplo de disciplina e ordem unida, viva á Escócia! ❤👏👏👏👏❤
No one but a pipe player would know if a bagpipe is out of tune.😂 Great video!
I think any musician with a good "ear" can tell how well-tuned anything is, whether it's a singer or piano or High School marching band or professional symphony orchestra or bagpipe band. All musical tones have the same physics and are perceived by the ear in the same way. I've had this proved to me several times when musicians (jazz or classical or whatever) have demonstrated the ability to hear in perfect detail all the tuning things going on in a bagpipe band.
@@RichardDCook I think he was being sarcastic mate.
My connection was as a REME vehicle mechanic when In Werl West Germany my first posting i was too young to appreciate the P&D at the time as being an Englishman
Have you fixed that mistake ?
A lot of "Hurry Up And Wait " involved here
They've combined the proud Scottish units down in to one small unit. So are they only ceremonial units? Or do members wear the uniform of the unit that is no longer functional for the day ane pretend they still exist? Do the bands of the Black Watch, A&S, Camerons, RHF. Royal Scots, KOSB, Gordons and Seyforth exist?
The Black Watch is the 3rd Battillion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. (3 Scots) definitely not only ceremonial. Can't really imagine a 5 star Genral telling the colonel of the Black Watch that his Battillion is being disbanded. General would be on the floor before he knew what hit him! 😂😂
@@paulross1296 How many battalions in the regiment, and how many men per battalion?
All those regiments still exist but they exist as part of one big regiment, each regiment has fewer numbers than they had before the amalgamation of the regiments....all about defense cut backs.
Why are the bagpiper's tartans on their kilts different than the pipe major?
I’m English, whatever you say gotta love the jocks. Proppa blokes. Same as us fuck it let’s go lol.
I hope this is not s silly question but are the Black Watch pipers wearing the Stewart tartan?
Viva Scotland Argentina desde el mundial 1986 los tenemos en nuestro corazon
I am from Taiwan visiting Edinburgh next July , I’m wondering how I can watch this fantastic view? Where and when?
Always a stirring site marvellous
Very fine performances, gentlemen!!
Name of song at 6:51?
Enjoying these videos so much!! Thank you for sharing them!! I hope one day to save up enough to travel to Scotland! My ancestors left a couple hundred years ago, but hearing bag pipes directly connects my heart and soul to Scotland.
The Atholl Highlanders is the tune
That sound would scare the shit out of any opposition army in front of it
Anybody can tell me what headdress that they are wearing is made from please. Does not look like the guards "bearskin." Thanks
Nunca sai do meu País mas gosto muito de música e acho essas bandas um patrimônio pros ingleses parabéns 👊👊👊👊👊
The Black Watch 🌟 Scotland the Brave 💪
O som da gaita de fole é lindo
Serious question: why the padding and apparent trigger locks on the rifles? Hoplophobia?
Soldiers seem a lot younger... Pipe-major looks 20!
He has kicked some ass in his short time on this Earth, the most feared regiment in Afghanistan!
0:01 - just making sure they're not in tune.
Them coppers should be in lock step also while within the midst of the Black Watch😊
I loved it when they wore the Balmoral instead of the Glengarry
According to my dad,( ex Black Watch) the red hackle that they wore on their Balmorals was taken away for some transgression!😬
@@oggie1967 The 3SCOTS, the current descendant of the Black Watch, still wear the red hackle. When the Royal Regiment of Scotland was created in 2006 each Battalion was given a different hackle colour, 1SCOTS black, 2SCOTS white, 3SCOTS red (continuing the Black Watch) 4SCOTS blue (continuing the Cameron Highlanders) 5SCOTS green, 6 SCOTS grey, 7SCOTS purple.
A guy that I worked with was in the army at the end of the war he had the job of destroying all of the captured weapons , he had a fiddle going where he was selling guns that he had declared were destroyed, ...he got caught, and was doing a long stretch in barlinie, after a while he was asked if he would rather do his time in prison, or , back in the army , he chose the army , and was enlisted in the black watch, and then packed off to Korea, .....he did not like it there , he said 20 million Chinese had his photo in their wallets with instructions to kill this man , he survived and was travelling to the docks in a truck to come home when it hit a mine , he had bad injuries to both legs , he always said he should have stayed in prison, and #@%k the black watch , he was one of life's characters,
Hail to Grandma Roxanna’s Scottish family!Thanks Jim Ramsay!
Granny Roxanna - nice name
@@JimRamsayJWR Black watch is the Gordon clan!
And never forget the MacBane(MacBean)MacBeathan clan!
What are they playing..!! Song..??
Down with the SNP 🙌
Aye and down with English Andy and mind your own business.
@@johnfitzpatrick4007bollock wee laddie
@@English.Andy1 Not bad coming from a mental Pygmy like your self.
The elaborate uniforms and the traditions they represent are beautiful, but a distraction. The real message is:
If you meet The Black Watch in combat your are going to get F*ed up. These are hard core soldiers.
They have my utmost respect.
The story has it that a German soldier, wholy unfamiliar with Scottish military traditions wrote in WW1 "We heard this strange whirling music and looked out of our trenches to see all these men dressed in skirts advancing on us. How we laughed! But we did not laugh for very long, and nor did we laugh when we saw them again!"
That drum major though🔥🔥
MY DADDY WAS IN THE BLACK WATCH AND A FANTASTIC PIPER 😢❤
Someone, please explain these men are in red plaid kilts, yet the Black Watch is green and black kilts ? They do have black and green pipe bags though. Maybe it's because they were escorting the crown of Scotland?
Officers wear a slightly different tartan and bandsmen different again.
Thank you!!
I don't know what that tune is but, man that is a great tune to match to.
"Atholl Highlanders" and "Glendaruel Highlanders"
Up Ye Scots! AND 'The Ladies From Hell".
MAGNIFICENT!!!
Thank god those policemen where there to protect the black watch!