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    I know photos going back through Victorian times show the pipers of most regiments wearing them.

    Recall that most regimental pipers did not wear the feather bonnet, but wore a Glengarry (or less often Balmoral) in Full Dress.

    Here, in 1861, two pipers of the 92nd Foot wearing blackcock tails in their Balmorals. (Note the unique tall spats of the 92nd, and the old 92nd OR's sporran, black with five short white tassels)



    Here in the Glengarries of the pipers of The Royal Scots, and also in the Kilmarnock Bonnet of the Drum Major



    It's rare to see them worn with civilian Highland Dress, but I did find this



    And yes the pipers of the 79th Foot > Cameron Highlanders > Queens Own Highlanders > The Highlanders > 4SCOTS have long worn an eagle feather in Full Dress.

    Here's Pipe Major Evan MacRae, during the period when the pipers of the QOCH wore Royal Stewart, showing the eagle feather



    A wonderful photo of the pipe band of 4SCOTS wearing their eagle feathers



    Showing the amazing continuity of the piper's costume of the old 79th Foot, here's a piper in the 1840s; compare to the photo above. The tartan, dark green doublet, dark blue Glengarry with eagle feather have all remained unchanged. (The pipers wore brown-grey sporrans with black tassels until 1994.)



    As an aside, the pipe band I played with in the late 1970s and early 1980s wore those blackcock tails in our Glengarries, and we hated them. You can't store the Glengarry normally, with that huge thing stuck on it.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 6th January 20 at 02:29 PM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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