The website pipetunes.ca is the first large-scale site of its kind to provide individual pieces of bagpipe sheet music and recorded demonstrations for download. The work, experience and finances that have gone into creating it would surprise you. The efforts required by composers to create this music would inspire you. The site will continue to operate and evolve and provide unparalleled access to new and old pipe music if and only if clients follow the following simple guidelines:
1) Download files for your own personal use; print multiple copies only for tunes being learned within your pipe band or taught to your student.
2) PLEASE do not email files or transfer them to other computers. Insist that fellow pipers and students support this site. The site will be easy to use as long as I don't have to incorporate unwieldy security.
3) Do not post any of these files to a website of any sort.
While I hope it will never come to this, I will not tolerate abuses to these guidelines. A system in in place for pipetunes.ca to pursue legal action. Thanks for your support. I look forward to enhancing and expanding the bagpipe sheet music and recording services offered by pipetunes.ca.
The website pipetunes.ca is the first large-scale site of its kind to provide individual pieces of bagpipe sheet music and recorded demonstrations for download. The work, experience and finances that have gone into creating it would surprise you. The efforts required by composers to create this music would inspire you. The site will continue to operate and evolve and provide unparalleled access to new and old pipe music if and only if clients follow the following simple guidelines:
1) Download files for your own personal use; print multiple copies only for tunes being learned within your pipe band or taught to your student.
2) PLEASE do not email files or transfer them to other computers. Insist that fellow pipers and students support this site. The site will be easy to use as long as I don't have to incorporate unwieldy security.
3) Do not post any of these files to a website of any sort.
While I hope it will never come to this, I will not tolerate abuses to these guidelines. A system in in place for pipetunes.ca to pursue legal action. Thanks for your support. I look forward to enhancing and expanding the bagpipe sheet music and recording services offered by pipetunes.ca.
When my Grandfathers brother, Alex McRae passed away, I received some of his music books. Alex was a piper and served in WW1 at Passchendael, I am also a piper. Inside one of his books I found a handwritten poem on a piece of paper and it titled The Alamein Pipes on the Road to Berlin. I have no idea who wrote this, but I thought it should be shared.
The Alamein Pipes on the Road to Berlin
They skirled through the thunder at El Alamein
They led the Eighth Army again and again
The 51st leading Montgomery in
Wi the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin
The Seaforth, Glengarians, Cameron’s as well
The Black Watch who are known as the “Ladies from Hell”
The 51st leading Montgomery in
Wi the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin
They came from the crofts
They came from the glens
They came from the pits
They were all fighting men
To Africa’s desert and Sicily’s shore
From Normandy’s beaches through Europe they tore
Now welcome the fighters home to the glen
And welcome the peace they bring wi them
The far away lilt stealin’ over the lynn
It’s the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin
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When my Grandfathers brother, Alex McRae passed away, I received some of his music books. Alex was a piper and served in WW1 at Passchendael, I am also a piper. Inside one of his books I found a handwritten poem on a piece of paper and it titled The Alamein Pipes on the Road to Berlin. I have no idea who wrote this, but I thought it should be shared.
The Alamein Pipes on the Road to Berlin
They skirled through the thunder at El Alamein
They led the Eighth Army again and again
The 51st leading Montgomery in
Wi the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin
The Seaforth, Glengarians, Cameron’s as well
The Black Watch who are known as the “Ladies from Hell”
The 51st leading Montgomery in
Wi the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin
They came from the crofts
They came from the glens
They came from the pits
They were all fighting men
To Africa’s desert and Sicily’s shore
From Normandy’s beaches through Europe they tore
Now welcome the fighters home to the glen
And welcome the peace they bring wi them
The far away lilt stealin’ over the lynn
It’s the Alamein pipes on the road to Berlin