Gordon Highlanders - Pipers   
    
    
    
     When you choose the pipes you have chosen the Great Highland War Pipe. A Scottish instrument
     whose origin dates back to Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. The Bagpipe is a wind instrument
     with four reeds; a chanter reed provides the melody, and three drone reeds provide the harmonic hum.
     The bag is a reservoir of air and the piper alternately blows and squeezes to produce a steady sound.    
    
     First pipers purchase a practice chanter, a $50 instrument similar to a recorder with a double reed. The
     chanter has nine notes with no sharps or flats. Tunes are embellished with grace notes. Once fingering
     is mastered pipers purchase their own bagpipes. You will learn to play marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs
     and love tunes both ancient and modern.    You will enjoy the "quickening of the crowd" as you add
     your skirl of the pipes. Traditionally pipers are valued members of Scottish communities and are always
     crowd pleasers.

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