Calling all pipers!

[beloitpiper]

What does your band wear, or what tartan do you wear when piping?

When I was with my former band, the Shamrock Club of Milwaukee, we wore solid Kelly Green. Now, that I'm a solo piper, I wear Gordon Dress. I'm thinking of joining the Clan MacAlpine band in Rockford. They wear (what else?) MacAlpine.

[Planopiper]

The Fort Worth Scottish wears Inverness. Simple and easy to spot. For solo I wear either Black Watch or Ancient Caledonian.

[Gary Krueger]

The band I am with, Cabar Feidh, wears the Modern Wilson. My personal kilt for all other piping (usually) is Ross Weathered Hunting. Thinking of a more "formal" looking kilt for solo gigs...maybe one of the dress Ross.

[Planopiper]

The first band I was in in Grand Rapids, MI wore Ancient Wilson. It was the first tartan with orange that I liked. Nice, muted colors. Then they went to Baird. A nice dark blue tartan, but a bad choice for a band, IMO. A band needs a bright tartan that's easy to spot. Red should be a requirement. Except for the massed bands at a highland games, they'll stand out. People who hire bands like flashy kilts.

[billmcc]

The band I was with wore Royal Stewart.

[Tartan Hiker]

My son pipes with the Montreat Scottish Society band, and they have their own tartan.

[cavscout]

The pipe band in Stone Mountain wears the Murray of Atholl tartan. They are the Atholl Highlanders. I can't speak on the rest of the uniform but in summer they usually just wear the miltary style shirts with eppauletts and a glengarry.

[Wompet]

Both the Caledonian Pipes and Drums of Buffalo, whom I'm learning from now, and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, my alma mater, wear the Royal Stewart. And I've seen a few other bands in Royal Stewart.

But I've also seen pipers wearing the Earl of St. Andrews, Saffron, Buchanan, Hunting MacLeod, Duncan, Gordon, MacGregor Glengyle, and a few others that I can't handily identify.