Last post on the pipes

**BCAC** · 14th November 13, 01:10 AM

I thought that this was quite "cool".

**Laird_M** · 14th November 13, 01:50 AM

Always brings a real lump to my throat...

**Chas** · 14th November 13, 04:23 AM

Might take some getting used to.

**plaid preacher** · 14th November 13, 07:17 AM

I'm with Chas. I kinda like it, but then my traditionalist side kicks in. The Last Post and the Rise are both bugle calls that were part of military life. (that is why, BTW, you will see drummers in military pipe bands with bugles ... exactly for this purpose). All of that being said ... I also thought, if the piper was well removed from the gathering the low constant drone of the drones during the silence could be very powerful. One last comment, he needs to keep to the timing. Like this fellow, the trumpeter who plays at our local Remembrance Day service likes to hold notes in a way that is not in keeping with a bugle call ... and sets my teeth on edge.

**Liam** · 14th November 13, 08:35 AM

I too like the traditional sound of the bugle, but agree with "plaid preacher" that the sound of the drones is powerful as he put it.

**OC Richard** · 22nd November 13, 07:11 AM

Bugle tunes usually fit on the pipe chanter perfectly, and when out at a military funeral, if they don't have a bugler or the "ceremonial bugle" isn't working (dead battery), I'll step in and play taps.

Bugle tunes, and any tunes, sound far better if the bagpipe's drones are tuned to the chanter.