Pipe and Drum
During pipe and drum competitions, solo pipers and drummers compete in individual events for strathspey and reel, march, piorbaireachd and drumming march. Judges evaluate the synchronicity of band members and the uniformity of pitch. During the Massed Bands, over 50 pipe and drum bands play together as a single entity.
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Famous quotes containing the words pipe and/or drum:
“Pan’s Syrinx was a girl indeed,
Though now she’s turned into a reed;
From that dear reed Pan’s pipe does come,
A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;”
—John Lyly (1553–1606)
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—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)