This is Johnstone Pipe Band's March, Strathspey and Reel set in the Grade One Competition at the RSPBA's Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in Dumbarton on July 30, 2022.

This is Johnstone Pipe Band's March, Strathspey and Reel set in the Grade One Competition at the RSPBA's Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in Dumbarton on July 30, 2022.

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Were the Bagpipes Banned as an Instrument of War?

For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.

The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.

Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...

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