Royal Edinburgh Tattoo 2010

[Mike_Oettle]

Some great pictures there, and thanks for the bit of video, too.

Todd wrote: “I see the South African Irish Regiment Pipes & Drums were there as well!”
You beat me to it!
I recognised them by their jackets (SA Army tunic) and the shields on their upper arms.
The green headgear looks suspiciously like an ordinary SA Infantry Corps beret, but I may be mistaken – perhaps it is a caubeen. At least they are wearing hackles on them.
Regards,
Mike

[rsvpiper]

The Pipes and Drums at this years Tattoo are from the following units

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
19th Regt Royal Artillery(Highland Gunners)
40th Regt Royal Artillery(Lowland Gunners)
The Black Watch (3rd Btn Royal Regiment of Scotland)
1st Royal Tank regt
The Royal Dragoon Guards
Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming
South Australia Police
Swiss Highlanders
The Citadel Regimental Pipes
South African Irish

200 Pipers and Drummers

[OC Richard]

The Pipes and Drums at this years Tattoo are from the following units

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
19th Regt Royal Artillery(Highland Gunners)
40th Regt Royal Artillery(Lowland Gunners)
The Black Watch (3rd Btn Royal Regiment of Scotland)
1st Royal Tank regt
The Royal Dragoon Guards
Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming
South Australia Police
Swiss Highlanders
The Citadel Regimental Pipes
South African Irish

Yes indeed what a difference! The pipe band of one Highland battalion only, the Black Watch.

Less than ten years ago at one Tattoo were the pipe bands of two Guards regiments and six Scottish regiments:

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
The Scots Guards
The Royal Scots
The Royal Highland Fusiliers
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
The Black Watch
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
The Highlanders (Seaforths, Gordons, and Camerons)

plus several overseas pipe bands

The South African Irish Regiment
The Rats Of Tobruk (a civilian band I believe)
unidentified Canadian military pipe band
unidentified civilian pipe band
unidentified Irish pipe band
Gurkha pipe band

14 pipe bands in all that I can see from photos.

[Darkislander]

Shamefully, I've never been to the tattoo yet. Enjoyed your photos though.

[Urchurdan]

Smashing photos, I have added a couple of mine, our Granddaughter is a Piper in the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Highland Gunners). She played at the Tattoo, and her Band was due to play at the Braemar Games tomorrow, but the Regiment has pulled them back to Camp. I'm not sure why, but I know they were in training for deployment to Afghanistan.
The first picture is of her and my wife Dee, The 19th wears the Hunting Robertson Tartan, and Dee's skirt is in the Ancient Urquhart variant of our Clan Tartan.