Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Now the piper. Obviously the sound we hear was recorded at a different time, and perhaps played by a different person. You can see his fingers not matching the playing, and besides a film set is an eerily silent place. Certainly he has his drones and chanter corked off, and is silently keeping the bag full and fingering the chanter. It's hard to tell if his finger positions are proper from this photo, though to me he seems like an actual piper due to his posture etc and not merely an extra who got handed a set of pipes.
Knowing just a very small amount about production, I imagine he was only asked to pretend to play a song of his choosing, and neither he nor the production crew knew what song would eventually be added to the soundtrack...or perhaps they had a song in mind, and it got changed in post. As you said, a set is an eerily quiet place, and it's mostly because all the sounds and music get added in later.

Either way, pretty cool if they tapped an actual piper to play the part. I wonder what the story is behind the contrasting tartans on his shoulder and breast.