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    Royal Edinburgh Tattoo 2010

    Well we have just got back from a weeks holiday in and around Edinburgh, We based ourselves in Falkirk, went over to Glasgow for a bit of piping live and took in the Tattoo whilst in Edinburgh along with a few shows at the fringe. With two small kid most of out trip was taken up keeping them occupied! but over all i recon we had a good trip with top weather and i got the chance to go Kilted for most of the week

    So here are a few pics and a small clip of vid

    the Castle

    Glasgow



    Breton Pipers

    Some rum lookin locals



    This is the Falkirk Wheel

    this is a massive gate to move boats up and down the cannal

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    Now over to Edinburgh for the Tattoo












    The Citadel PnD from South carolina


    Band of the Polish boarder guards with Alpine horns!

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    The Tattoo Highland dancers


    My good self with The BOSS and number one son Callum


    Just a wee bit of vid as this murdered the free space on my camera

    I hope you like the pics, If you get the chance get your self here for the 61st Tattoo in 2011 see you then

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsvpiper View Post



    Wow, this picture highlights how many fewer Scottish military pipe bands there are nowadays.

    In the closest file are the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, in the furthest file the Black Watch (who are now one of the Battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland). The fourth and fifth-furthest files seem to be made up of members of various Battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

    The rest of the files appear to be non-Scottish pipe bands, some of them civilian.

    Back in the early years of the Tattoo the ranks could easily be filled with Scottish military pipe bands, there being a dozen at that time.

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    Some great pictures there, and thanks for the bit of video, too.

    Todd wrote: “I see the South African Irish Regiment Pipes & Drums were there as well!”
    You beat me to it!
    I recognised them by their jackets (SA Army tunic) and the shields on their upper arms.
    The green headgear looks suspiciously like an ordinary SA Infantry Corps beret, but I may be mistaken – perhaps it is a caubeen. At least they are wearing hackles on them.
    Regards,
    Mike
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    The Pipes and Drums at this years Tattoo are from the following units

    The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
    19th Regt Royal Artillery(Highland Gunners)
    40th Regt Royal Artillery(Lowland Gunners)
    The Black Watch (3rd Btn Royal Regiment of Scotland)
    1st Royal Tank regt
    The Royal Dragoon Guards
    Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming
    South Australia Police
    Swiss Highlanders
    The Citadel Regimental Pipes
    South African Irish

    200 Pipers and Drummers

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsvpiper View Post
    The Pipes and Drums at this years Tattoo are from the following units

    The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
    19th Regt Royal Artillery(Highland Gunners)
    40th Regt Royal Artillery(Lowland Gunners)
    The Black Watch (3rd Btn Royal Regiment of Scotland)
    1st Royal Tank regt
    The Royal Dragoon Guards
    Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming
    South Australia Police
    Swiss Highlanders
    The Citadel Regimental Pipes
    South African Irish
    Yes indeed what a difference! The pipe band of one Highland battalion only, the Black Watch.

    Less than ten years ago at one Tattoo were the pipe bands of two Guards regiments and six Scottish regiments:

    The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
    The Scots Guards
    The Royal Scots
    The Royal Highland Fusiliers
    The King's Own Scottish Borderers
    The Black Watch
    The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
    The Highlanders (Seaforths, Gordons, and Camerons)

    plus several overseas pipe bands

    The South African Irish Regiment
    The Rats Of Tobruk (a civilian band I believe)
    unidentified Canadian military pipe band
    unidentified civilian pipe band
    unidentified Irish pipe band
    Gurkha pipe band

    14 pipe bands in all that I can see from photos.

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    Thank you for the wonderful pics!

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    I see the South African Irish Regiment Pipes & Drums were there as well!

    T.

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