Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
There is a Pipe Band, the official band of the Tattoo, called The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes & Drums. https://www.edintattoo.co.uk/on-tour/pipes-and-drums

Somebody came up with the brilliant idea of creating an in-house Pipes & Drums which exists solely for performing at the Tattoo.

It's a civilian all-volunteer band. Pipers and drummers audition online, are sent the music to be played, and show up a week prior to the start of the Tattoo for intensive rehearsals and to be kitted out. At the end of the Tattoo everyone turns in their kit and flies home. The members come from all over the world. It's a big band, I think some years it's around 60 or 70 members.

The Pipe Major is the brilliant Australian piper Alistair MacLaren (bottom left below, he's always smiling!) who for a time was running the Scottish National Youth Pipes & Drums, and gave a bagpipe lesson to King Charles. If you want something done right you put him in charge.

What I don't know is if they would put together an off-season ad hoc Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes & Drums for a one-off like the NYC parade.

I see on their website that they've put together a group to perform in Germany so it's possible.
Thanks SO much for that (and the pics). Turns out I won't be able to go to the Carnegie Hall concert, but I have a "participant" pass for the parade, and perhaps I'll be able to wander up close to them if they're marching (which I assume they would be if they've come all the way to the US for the event). I'm not going to march. For one thing, the current weather forecast is not encouraging; for another, I'd rather listen to each pipe band as it passes rather than looking at the pleats of other kilts in Robertson tartan variants for 2 hours.