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Above and beyond the call of duty: The Mad Piper – David Kirkpatrick

Above and beyond the call of duty: The Mad Piper – David Kirkpatrick

By MARIO TOMASONE. Piping Today #54, 2011. The solemn and complex manoeuvres the troops made on the battlefields of the 18th and 19th centuries were almost inevitably done with pipers playing when Scottish units were involved.  At the turn of the 20th century things changed quite dramatically.  After some early […]