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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“Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers
And never a ploughman under the Sun.
Never a ploughman. Never a one.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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