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A Scottish Proverb
If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.
An Instrument of War
It
should be noted that although the pipes were used in battle in the
Highlands, they were not used in an official way in the units in early
times. The drums and fife were used and then the trumpet by early
regiments. The first piper to gain recognition was Alexander Wallace, who
was pipe-major of Dumbarton’s Regiment in 1679. When the pipes were banned
after Culloden, and James Reid, a piper in Ogilvie’s Regiment was captured,
Reid pointed out at his trial that he did not wield arms during the
battle. The
judge, however, dismissed his defense as “a Highland Regiment never marched
without a piper…therefore his bagpipe, in the eye of the law, was an
instrument of war”.
Ref: The Compete Book
of Tartan
By Iain Zaczek
and Charles Phillips
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