Amazing Grace...St. Basil's / Red Square...bagpipes as far as the eye can see

[Tonks]

I find some bizarre stuff on the internet but I thought that this was pretty cool

YouTube - Amazing Grace

 

[Anhelyna]

Yup

Nothing like the pipes to give you shivers all down your spine

 

[Gwenyfur]

I *love* the pipes!

 

[Khaleas]

If there is something that I love it's pipes! Hubby plays but has gotten out of it, but I'm working to get him back to it again. That was like 'seal the deal' when I found that out when we started dating LOL. He used to play in a Pipe and Drum Corp in High School and wasn't too shabby at all (esp in the kilt LOL).
I've already told him that we have to buy a farm somewhere so he can actually play outside.

 

[katherine2001]

Yup

Nothing like the pipes to give you shivers all down your spine

I love the bagpipes! I have several CD's and I loved it when BBC America would show the Military Tattoo in Edinburgh. I have a lot of Scottish blood in me.

 

[Anhelyna]

Oh make no mistake about it I love pipes too

Both my daughters when young learnt to play the Chanter , and I still have Raymond's pipes .

 

[ArmyMatt]

gotta love bagpipes

 

[Julina]

that's awesome!

 

[Kristos]

YouTube - So I Married An Axe Murderer - LETS GET [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ED

 

[Andrew21091]

Nice video. It's really interesting hearing the pipes and then seeing St. Basil's in the background.

 

[Montalban]

One Scots comedian said that bagpipes provide the missing link between noise and sound

 

[xenia]

Tonks, great video! I always get teary-eyed when I hear bagpipe music.

 

[Philothei]

Nice Thanks Tonks

 

[Dorothea]

The bagpipes mixed with that song always make me weepy.

 

[Blackknight]

Awesome video, thanks.

 

[Melania Rose]

Very cool....

 

[MariaRegina]

Thanks, Tonks

At a Greek Orthodox Church Musician's Conference, one of the lecturers told us that this hymn, Amazing Grace, is actually taken from the sacred music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Apparently Ethiopians do not have eight tones like the Byzantines, but only three. When an Ethiopian Bishop came to America to visit, he was taken to a Gospel music concert. He was shocked when a protestant choir sang Amazing Grace and exclaimed that the melody came from the Ethiopians. This is not surprising given the origin of the hymn as found on a slave ship filled with Ethiopians.

 

[Mozartboy]

cool!

 

[angrylittlefisherman]

I have this inexplicable desire to fight the british.

 

[katherine2001]

Oh make no mistake about it I love pipes too

Both my daughters when young learnt to play the Chanter , and I still have Raymond's pipes .

Do the different tartans that the bagpipers are wearing in teh video represent the different regiments? I'm assuming that this is the case. Do civilian bagpipers wear the tartans of their clans? I've never seen bagpipes without the tartans woven in them.