Tune selection

Tunes 

Core Repertoire (as of July 2022)

– Scotland the Brave/Mairi’s Wedding

– Green Hills/BaDle’s O’er

– Kokoda/Balmoral/I See Mull

– Atholl Highlanders/Steam Boat

– Bells of Dunblane

– Scots Whae Hae

– We are Australian/Road to Gundagai/When the Saints Go Marching In

– Loch Lomond/Flower of Scotland/Wooden Heart

– Highland Cathedral

– Amazing Grace

– Itchy Fingers

– Dawning of the Day

Highland Dancing Tunes

– Highland Fling (Last line of Scotland the Brave, Mairi’s Wedding x 2)

– Lilt (Battle of the Somme)

– Flora (100 Pipers x 2)

– Sean Triubhas (Whistle O’er the Lave O’t)

– Village Maid (Liberton Boys Pipe Band)

– Barracks Johnnie (The Barren Rocks of Aden)

– Laddie (Heilan’ Laddie)

New/Refresher Tunes (some to become core repertoire)

– Mingulay Boat Song/Lachanside

– Monster in the Pond – fun, catchy and a bit of a challenge to get our fingers working

– Ellen Vannin – suggested by drummers, should be a quick and easy enough one to pick up for pipers merged with Glasgow Police Pipers or similar

– Mackay Pipe Band – written for the band by ex Pipe Major Cleve Alcorn

– Minstrel Boy/When Irish Eyes are Smiling/Fields of Athenry – Irish sets

– Cullen Bay/Pipe Major J.K Cairns

– Hundred Pipers/Bonnie Dundee/Cock of the North

– Black Bear

– The Lion Sleeps Tonight

– Hallelujah (from Shrek)

– The Gael

Other Possibilities

– Wee Buns

– A Monkey on the Pony

– The Can-Can

– Paddy’s Leather Breeches

– The Hokey Pokey

But seriously…

We do play more than that.

Between all of the band members, we would probably play around 200-300 tunes (roughly). Not all of us can play that many, but as a minimum most members can play around 40 tunes within a few years of playing.

Since we’re always augmenting our repertoire we can’t list all the tunes here, and we don’t like to brag…but trust us, we’re really awesome 🙂