Pipe tunes' uber-long names

[OC Richard]

In the "song title game" thread one can see that, generally, song titles are pithy.

Such is not the case with Highland bagpipe tunes!

I don't know what it is, probably the military nature of so many tunes, but Scottish pipe tunes are possibly unrivalled regarding absurdly long tune titles.

Here are some examples:

Doctor Ross' 50th Welcome to the Argyllshire Gathering

(This is possibly the most widely-played long-title tune, and a civilian one at that.)

There are traditional tunes with fairly long titles:

There Was An Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket

Sound Of The Waves Against The Castle Of Duntroon

And some Gaelic ones:

Thailer A Bha Me Sherridh Is Feader A Thuair Me

Nuair A Bha Mi Og B'e Mo Roghainn Dol A' Shireadh Spors

Modern ones that commemorate various things:

Saint Andrews and Caledonian Society of Victoria British Columbia

The 1954 Scottish Pipe Band Association's Welcome To Pittodrie

But for really long ones, one must turn to relatively recent military compositions:

Pipe Major Willie Ross' Farewell to the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards (a widely-played tune)

Pipe Major Alex Douglas' Farewell To The 16 Company Royal Australian Army Service Corps

and the longest I could find

The 2nd Battalion 51st Highland Volunteers Territorial Army's Farewell To Regimental Sergeant Major Murdo MacLeod