These pipers are from all over the Commonwealth. UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Flags of their country of origin can be seen at 03:59 being projected on the wall.

My father was there, 51st Highland Div, he wrote "..for never a sign of fear they showed, no hurried or trembling breath though they knew full well, and I also knew that ere the mornings early dew some would have met their death And so I rose and took my part in that battle drear and grim and the hours passed on leaden feet to a dawn that was grey and dim And though I watched and waited there I waited and watched in vain for those gallant men who had followed the pipes would never return again"

350 pipers playing as one !! Brilliant post. Thank you for sharing.

Final: Bill Millin was amazed that he was not shot. Not only did he play standing up, but with his great highland bagpipes skirling over the noise of battle, he was hard to ignore. Some time later, captured German soldiers told him they did not shoot him because they thought he was just a crazy man.In the 1962 movie, The Longest Day, Bill Millin was played by Pipe Major Leslie de Laspee, official piper to the Queen Mother at the time the film was made.

Just INSANE! Ohh guys, i have not words! Greetins from Russia!

St. Andrew is the patron saint of both Scotland and Russia. God Bless them Both.

You want to hear them live , the effect is more astonishing , especially when the Scots Guards are taking over the guard at Buckingham Palace.

КРАСАВЦЫ!!!!!!!!!!! Как восхитительно звучит волынка!!!

The amount of goose pumps.. is beyond... everything %)

For centuries Scots mercenaries served with the Czars armies in Scottish units

C'est un spectacle fantastic I love this music .

I love Scottish parades!

Bagpipes in Red Square...Brilliant - thanks for posting.

My dad introduced me to the Pi8per of El Alemein. His name was/is Sir, as in yes sir, no sir. I was just a wee boy but I remember being in awe of him. Everyone in the Highlands knew him. I think his son or grandson still runs a business in Nairn. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders are/were from my home town. When the pipes play you'll charge the bowels of Hell The Highland Light Infantry gave the UK its first victory of the war, every war.

Long live Scotland and Scottish people !!! God bless you for Scotch Whisky !!!

Wow love the sound of the bagpipes, glad you guys stayed with the other 3 of us =)

They are marvelous !

The sensible Germans would just call down their pre-registered fires from their mortars, and use their pre-sited machine guns to fire on fixed lines. Defensive doctrine was to lightly outpost the Hauptkampflinie (MLR), then strongly counter-attack with mobile reserves. It was costly, but also tough on the attackers. Any veteran of the 15th (Scottish), 51st (Highland) or 52nd (Lowland) Div would tell you that the Germans were tough fighters and not prone to simply running at the sound of pipes.

Armies must have shit themselves when they heard this marching over the hill

This is superb. A meeting of Celts and Slavonics. Celts are great and so is their pipe music. I am half Viking and half Saxon (born in England) but these Scots made me proud because of the 'British' connection.

We used to have a wee saying about that it was Auntie Mary. Had a canary up the legs of her drawers it wouldn’t come down for a half a crown she won a victorious cross .

Scotland For Ever!

Красиво звучит! Super!

Whenever I hear the pipes I want to fix bayonet and charge something!

@TheDrummerboi94 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha comes from her great great grandfather and it was never her name. She's also Scottish from her mother. I'd say that makes her more Scottish than German.

Cont 2...It was said that a good piper was worth an extra five hundred men due to the morale boost for the Highland troops upon hearing the skirling of the pipes.As they were ready to disembark from their landing craft, Lord Lovat asked Private Bill Millin to play Hielan’ Laddie, a tune also known as Highland Laddie. So Private Millin played the ancient march as the troops waded ashore on Sword Beach.

I'm a turk and we have the bagpipers in our black-sea coasts too and I love the scottish music great really ;)

"I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me!" - as Wellington may, or may not, have said. ;-)

Класс! Аж дух захватывает.

Magnificent!!

Aye lads, your seeing history there!

magistral!!!

My great grandfather was with him. The piper died but he died with his pipes still in his hands. If anyone is against us be warned if you hear the pipes run. Because we're coming to get you.

I just Love that Music :)

Agreed. I can't imagine not being able to see too much but you're still hearing that sound come closer and closer...I would run like hell in the other direction because you know, those boys just aren't going to stop.

They did it GREAT!!!!

Thank you rudolphreindeer86 for posting this extraordinary vid. Greetings from Switzerland.

The bagpiper in question was Bill Millin. They didn't shoot him because they thought he was mad. To be fair, they probably had a point: marching up and down Sword Beach playing bagpipes was a pretty mad thing to do on that particular morning!

Great video.

That was absolutely awesome, many thanks to Russia for hosting this, hope you enjoyed

Cont: Lord Lovat replied, “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” Although pipers had been used in battle for centuries, the official position of the British War Office was that the pipes were to be restricted to rear areas. The reason for the policy was that too many pipers had been killed during WW-I after the enemy figured out how much a good piper was worth in morale for the Highland troops nicknamed the “Ladies From Hell.”

Fantastic!

0:29 That view of them advancing with the cathedral in the back was absolutely fantastic.

Very Amazing!

This is spectacular and it was so different than the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland and as well as Basel Tattoo in Switzerland. Well Done!!

The MG42 was pretty terrifying sounding too. They could lay them to fire on fixed lines, at night - or through fog. You didn't need to be able to see to put down a decent crossfire. They also preregistered their mortars; formations like the 51st (Highland) Division came to respect German units in the defence very greatly. Mostly because they very rarely just gave up without a fight.

very smart as always and i,m English and from Great Britain ...

Кремлёвская Зоря (Kremlin Zorya) September 2007 - I was there as a piper with the Australian Federal Police Pipes and Drums! I don't believe there has been another one.

YES!! and i can feel with you!

@TheDrummerboi94 I think you're right about the German part, but i do think the Queen mother was Scottish making the Queen more Scottish than German. Splitting hairs i'm sure

That's some serious badassery that is!

Black Watch Drum Major. Black Watch leading band, RAF Leuchers, possibly RAF Halton also. Several Scottish Regiments. It's a massed band led by British forces so that'll be the reason.

Awesome!

Theres an old story about a Scottish regiment in the Battle of El Alamein that advanced over heavily land mined ground through a smoke screen with a lone piper at the front of the advance playing away. Now I don't know about you lot, but if I was an axis soldier on that day, couldn't see fuck all and could only hear the sound of advancing pipes, that's when I'd be looking for my white flag, couldn't think of anything more terrifying.

I highly agree; I play the pipes but I also do reactments of battles and such and believe me when the smoke doesnt clear and you hear the pipes coming towards you it freaks you out; Even though I know the battle is fake it feels real.

Also, it was September 2007. I believe they were back again for something similar this year too (2013).

This popped up in my recommendations

Mede één van de mooiste massed bands optredens !

@scaurus It was uploaded in Feb 2009, so is either the 2007 or 2008 parade.

Cool-I like it.

This was ace to watch again. I was there, piping with the OTC bands. You can make out my pipe major, but not me. I remember I was toward the crowd side as opposed to the Kremlin side when marching in. We marched in from the Kremlin, through a (relatively) narrow tower/bridge bit, then slowed the step and widened out. I think there was 196 pipers on the finale, with maybe 20 or so more for this solo stint. Plus loads of drummers of course.

Can anyone tell me what reel or jig they break into at around 3.36?

thats awesome

Black Watch are there, RAF Pipe bands. Others likely I can't make out specifically. Yes it's the jocks.

AMAZING AS ALWAYS ЗДОРОВО ШОТЛАНДЦИ НЕВЕРОЯТНИ

What the first tuner called?

Does anyone have a list of the pipe bands seen here? I see 1SCOTS, 3SCOTS, 4SCOTS, the Scots Guards, RAF, a police pipe band, and some civilian pipe bands (including Rats Of Tobruk?)

only recently found out that my mom's family came to scotland along with william the conqueror. the landells connected with the homes/hume clan through marriage of sir alexander home, 1st lord home, and mariota de landells. my mom always was highly reticent to speak about her lineage, but the internet and email are amazing, at times....

The last British men who left the Russians that speechless had to ride through a valley of death

World Highland (something) was held in Toronto in 72 or 73. I arrived from the US to join my US grade 4 band for the grade 4 / grade 2 contests of Saturday. Around noon thousands of us were tuning up on the grassy knoll sloping down to Lake Ontario, when between us and the Great Lake traffic on the road stalled, and the Soviet Army Chorus buses among them. They threw down their windows to the sound of total drones and clashing chanters, and cheered us leaning out their windows.

Maravilha!

@TheDrummerboi94 i have to add my name has been scottish for 1000 years, im scottish.

HD ! We need HD !

its the massed bagpipe band from this years edingburgh military tattoo

One of my family died in Italy in ww2 as a black watch artillery man RIP

Twenty-one year-old Private Bill Millin, “The Mad Piper of D-Day.” He was assigned to the Highland Light Infantry, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, No. 4 Commando. On that fateful day, he was personal piper to Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of 1 Special Service Brigade. When he was assigned to pipe the troops ashore, Private Millin at first declined, reminding his commanding officer that it was against British War Office regulations.

I love their dresses and bagpipes!

The Black Watch did it on D-day as well.

That actually happened. There was a massive artillery barrage on the Germans in the darkness and the pipers led the way

When will be the next time we see Scottish Bagpipers in Red Square?

Not true, I'm afraid. if you look at official figures, the HM Government spends slightly more in Scotland than the amount of taxes HMG raises there. it is only once you add the unsubsidised spending by the Scottish Executive - which is from revenue raised in Scotland that the total taxes raised in Scotland appears to exceed HMG's spending there. It's only by a small amount, so - no - England does not get any kind of a 'subsidy' from Scotland.

who knows the title at 01:00 ?? That is a great sound!

LOVE IT!! Especially that they all march off to the Cock o' the North! A Gordon! A Gordon!

true story aswell :) ww1 willhelm called us the devils in skirts~:) englishman born in england to 2 scottish parents

brings a lump to your throat them pipes.

Классная музыка

we are a brave bunch

What's the name of the march starting at 01:00?

This is not just the jocks,i think its a commonwealth mix,Canadians,Gurkhas,Kiwis etc.

Not saying your parades aren't as good, but this is pretty well up there if yous all don't mind me saying so ;D

Хочу волынку и килт. Bravo Scotland.

What is the name of first song?

It is not a Bagpipe Corps, its a Pipe Band. Obviously a Massed Band from several Regiments. I do wish people would stop referring to Bagpipers: they are called Pipers in Scotland. Rant mode off:)

Wish I was there ! The commentator stopped alittle bit in this part than god!!

My Scottish roots go back to Robert the Bruce through his daughter Marjorie Bruce who married Walter Stewart, 6th High Stewart of Scotland and naturally; I love the bagpipes!

Exelentes marchas y que decir de las "Gaitas"

Hey, Jimmy, did ye spill ma pint?

The Scott's Rule the Fucking World

what are they doing there? They weren't involved in WW2, were they?

I wonder what the Russian MC said?