![]() Mr Methven served in Northern Ireland and on two tours of Afghanistan before leaving the army in 2019 and now teaches the bagpipes. He added, “She grabbed my arm again and said, ‘You know, Pipes, if anyone has a problem with this, tell them I said it’s okay to go.” Don’t wait to ask anyone, just go home when your family needs you because family comes first.” ![]() He said: “I stood by the Queen and she said, ‘If you’re not here in the morning and you’re not playing the bagpipes, then I know you’re gone. The Queen also sent the nurses on duty a basket of strawberries and muffins, and Mr Methven said his son has frequently spoken to the Duke of Edinburgh about his love of red squirrels.Īfter his wife’s diagnosis, he said the Queen told him to “put family first”. Mr Methven was the Queen’s 15th Piper, having been created by Queen Victoria in 1843 after enjoying the sound of the bagpipes while on holiday at Taymouth Castle The couple’s children were allowed to stay at Balmoral Castle and looked after by royal nannies while Mr Methven tended his wife in hospital and his five-year-old son Fearghas (corr) played with Prince George. He has previously spoken out about the Queen’s personal kindness to him and his family after his wife Morven was diagnosed with terminal cancer. DM 3773: full-length standing, wearing kilt and plaid of Farquharson tartan, playing the pipes, which are embroidered with the Farquharson arms river. Mr Methven was the Queen’s 15th Piper, having been created by Queen Victoria in 1843 after enjoying the sound of the bagpipes while on holiday at Taymouth Castle. He said, “She once joked that I was the first piper to hold the post she didn’t have to look up to – a jibe at my 5ft 6in height.” The Queen, who was known to be petite at around 5ft 3in, also joked about Mr Methven’s height. “I replied that I got lost in the palace and she laughed, realizing that as children she used to get lost with Princess Margaret all the time.” So long as the school continues to turn out such highly trained pipers and drummers, the future of this wonderful music is assured, which in turn means that you and I can continue to be enchanted by the skirl of the pipes.Mr Methven said he was “briefly unmasked” while playing the bagpipes outside Windsor Castle on a windy morning and said the Queen later joked about the incident The school is part of the Institute of Piping, the institute sets a standardised piping certificate programme for students from around the world. They have in the past provided instruction to various police pipe band members, but this has not happened in the last number of years. They also accept students from the armed forces of Commonwealth Countries, but not civilians. The qualified instructors themselves are drawn from the pipes and drums of the various units within the British Army. ![]() He in turn is assisted by a Chief Instructor, who is the Senior Pipe Major of the British Army. The school is commanded by a Director who is a qualified Pipe Major, and who normally holds the rank of Captain or Major. The school was founded in 1910, and is located at Inchdrewer House, near Redford Barracks in Edinburgh, and is affiliated with the Corps of Army Music which is regarded as the smallest unit in the British Army.Īnd drummers, from the British Armed Forces, to the highest possible levels. The leading military school, which is responsible for the continued high standard of these pipe bands is The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming.īelow I have embedded a short video which allows you to watch, and I hope enjoy listening to some of the students of the school, as they learn to play their instruments. Earlier this year, he married the Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips.Tindall was pictured with a woman at a bar in Queenstown, and then later admitted misleading England management about events during the evening. Nowadays thank God, these pipe bands are put to different uses, but never the less just as important, as the role of these Scottish Battalions which make up the newly formed Royal Regiment of Scotland, play their part in the modern British armed forces. Have played a major role in Scottish regiments, often leading the troops into battle, in many theatres of war across the world. The sight and sound of a pipe band is something that stirs the blood of just about everyone (you certainly don't have to be Scottish or Irish to appreciate and love the music).Īrguably some of the most famous bagpipe music would have have its origins in Scottish military pipe bands. Bagpipe music is something that most people would naturally associate with theīut you don't have to be in Scotland to hear the bagpipes being played, in fact they are now so famous that you can see and hear ![]()
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