Pipers in flat caps!

[Kilted_John]

*gag*

[Bigkahuna]

I think that guy in the third row on the right may have his pipes in tune.............................no....wait....I'm Wrong!!!

[Swampthing]

Those are pakistanis for ya!


(Last post was removed because '****' was considered derogatory, so if you're wandering what happened, I changed it.)

[mouse 1]

I love pipe music however, that was just PAINFUL. Ok I will give them a 4.5 for the effort! At least they had the nuggets to go for it.

[Rogerson785]

There was not one ounce of military discipline; a guy smoking while someone else used his drum, sunglasses, and another piper can be seen drinking a Coke! I kept looking for the basket of snakes but none could be seen.

[Frank McGrath]

With apologies to BarleyJuice, Beware the Weekend Scottish.

[PiobBear]

There was not one ounce of military discipline; a guy smoking while someone else used his drum, sunglasses, and another piper can be seen drinking a Coke!

Thank goodness I've never seen behavior even remotely similar at Highland Games!


While I'm not a huge fan of Pakistan, the "basket of snakes" comment seems unnecessarily close to being overtly racist to me.

[Brother Falldown]

I think we will all find this **** group less offensive. Clearly they are not all cut from the same cloth. Thank God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eiJCL9zB8&NR=1

[Mike S]

I think we will all find this **** group less offensive. Clearly they are not all cut from the same cloth. Thank God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eiJCL9zB8&NR=1

They look to be a Government/Regimental or Police pipe band, playing non Pakistani pipes and Premier Drums.

[O'Callaghan]

I think we will all find this **** group less offensive. Clearly they are not all cut from the same cloth. Thank God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eiJCL9zB8&NR=1

They vary a lot. Obviously, I picked the particular clip that I did for it's amusement value. It's not supposed to represent typical Pakistani playing, and in fact it's worse than most, although many aren't much better.

There are always a lot of clips from the festival that takes place in Sialkot, where the Pakistani bagpipe/kilt etc. industry is based, and the standard there is pretty low. Sadly, even the bands turned out by the places that make the bagpipes aren't very good.

There are some YouTube clips of Indian bagpipe bands that seem rather better than the Pakistani ones on average. However, you can find bagpipe bands from any country in the world, just about. There is one clip of a guy in his bagpipe and highland regalia shop in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is very ably playing the highland bagpipes. Mind you, it must have been ear-splitting if you were there, inside the shop! Someone should tell him it's not an indoor instrument.

You can also find many clips of people playing other versions of the pipes, e.g. German and central European versions of the small pipes, or Eastern European bagpipes with a single bass drone pointing downwards. I particularly like the sound of the latter, as found in Hungary and Romania. I think they are called Ghaiba, or something like that. The original pipes that came out of the Middle East must have been something like that.