From the Scottish Banner; August 2003

We Asked You

What is Your Favourite Pipe Tune, and Why?

Amazing Grace

This tune has been played at each one of my family’s funerals and it will be played at mine.

It was played at my mother-in-law’s funeral and we took the pages of words and had them framed. It is a beautiful piece and a wonderful pipe tune. When it is played by the lone piper it makes your hair stand on end. I first heard it when I was six and I love it.

Helen Eisenhower
Palm Springs. CA.

 

 Highland Cathedral

My Favourite pipe tune is Highland Cathedral. I don’t know why but I find it such a magnificent piece of music. The pomp and ceremony heard in the music reflects what I think of when I think of the highlands of Scotland.

John Lowery
Chatsworth, CA.

 

Going Home

Definitely! It makes me feel very nostalgic. It was played at my husband’s funeral. The tune associates me with going home – and that can mean to Scotland or to a heavenly home. Either way going home is heaven - to me.

Anne Vance
Lynchburg, VA
(Originally
Greenock, Scotland).

  Scotland the Brave

I love Scotland the Brave. When the pipes strike up with that tune I feel a surge of power and joy. The feelings it arouses in me are quite amazing. I first heard the tune about 20 years ago, and I think it was at Stone Mountain Highland Games.

Sally Byers
Atlanta, Georgia