Pupils from 98 different schools travelled from across the country to compete in the event and demonstrate their mastery of traditional Scottish music.
Posted on 03/17/2014 11:55:09 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
YOUNG pipers raised the roof at Broughton High School in Edinburgh as the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships got under way.
Pupils from 98 different schools travelled from across the country to compete in the event and demonstrate their mastery of traditional Scottish music.
A record number of youngsters took part in the championships, which are in their second year, with many getting their first taste of performing in public.
Bands travelled from as far away as the Outer Hebrides and the Scottish Borders to compete in a variety of categories ranging from debut and experienced to a unique "freestyle" category.
And the competition also attracted two schools from England for the first time, with Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and Oundle School in Peterborough taking part.
However, Sgoil Lionacleit Pipe Band, from the secondary school in Benbecula, were unable to travel after high winds prevented their ferry from sailing.
Musicians in the freestyle category perform a song of their choice using the traditional influences of piping and drumming. David Johnston, chairman of the committee behind the competition, said: "The atmosphere was just electric. The competition has grown so much since last year which is just brilliant and the level of talent has definitely exceeded my expectations. We've also had more than 200 extra musicians enter the competition compared with last year which just shows how the popularity for playing the pipes and drums is growing.
"Being able to hear the impressive skills and techniques displayed by the youngsters is also just fantastic. It's obvious that so much time and effort has gone into preparing for this competition.
"Hopefully we see even more pupils take up the pipes or drums ahead of next year's championships."
"Favente Deo Supero!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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Pass the HAGAS please.
Skirl On!
Aye, that I do.
I had never seen it before.
What has been now seen can never be unseen.
Anything I have to boil in stages for a total of 5 hours or more is only suitable in a case of starvation.
Only five hours?
I was figuring at LEAST a Day.
Under pressure.
LOL.
Address To a Haggis (By Robert Burns)
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my arm.
(sonsie = jolly/cheerful)
(aboon = above)
(painch = paunch/stomach, thairm = intestine)
(wordy = worthy)
The groaning trencher there ye fillYour hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
(I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!!!!!!)
(hurdies = buttocks)
His knife see rustic Labour dicht,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready slicht,
Trenching your gushing entrails bricht,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sicht,
Warm-reekin, rich!
(dicht = wipe, here with the idea of sharpening)
(slicht = skill)
(reekin= steaming)
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmaist! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
“Bethankit” hums.
(deil = devil)
(swall’d = swollen, kytes = bellies, belyve = soon)
(bent like = tight as)
(auld Guidman = the man of the house, rive = tear, i.e. burst)
Is there that o’re his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect scunner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?
(olio = stew, from Spanish olla’/stew pot, staw = make sick)
(scunner = disgust)
Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
(nieve = fist, nit = nut, i.e. tiny)
But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his wallie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whistle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thristle.
(wallie = mighty, nieve = fist)
(sned = cut off)
(thristle = thistle)
Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinkin ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a haggis!
(skinkin ware = watery soup)
(jaups = slops about, luggies = two-handled continental bowls)
From Oct, 2013, Young Scottish pipers "Scotland The Brave"
You can REALLY see them working hard at it..their lung capacity/strength has to be much less..harder to move all that air..
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