Bagpipe News » Bagpiper http://www.bagpipenews.com Stay Tuned ! Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:41:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Sovereign’s piper for a day http://www.bagpipenews.com/announcements/2008/04/11/sovereigns-piper-for-a-day/ http://www.bagpipenews.com/announcements/2008/04/11/sovereigns-piper-for-a-day/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:12:20 +0000 Pipe Major http://www.bagpipenews.com/?p=1172 Continue reading →]]> PiperKILSYTH soldier Corporal Alastair Tripney (26) had the honour of playing in front of Her Majesty The Queen.

Pipers from the five regular battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) played at the State Banquet during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Windsor Castle. It is the first time that the Royal Regiment of Scotland has been given the honour to be the Sovereign’s Pipers at a state banquet.

The pipers had been rehearsing at the headquarters of the Army’s School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Redford Infantry Barracks in Edinburgh where they marched in and around the headquarters to try and recreate the Windsor Castle setting prior to playing at the state banquet before Her Majesty The Queen and the French President.

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