Originally Posted by
beloitpiper
Yeah, the only reason I wear un-diced bonnets is because I'm a piper, and (in my pipeband, at least) the pipers wear un-diced balmorals while the bass drummer wears a diced feather bonnet.
Not sure of the meaning, but it looks good to me!
I think it means that the pipers are Hanoverian Jacobites who support the restoration of Cromwell, whilst the bass drummer is a Protestant Catholic Highlander from Glasgow, or something. At least that's what I get when I try to absorb the whole thread. 
--Scott
"MacDonald the piper stood up in the pulpit,
He made the pipes skirl out the music divine."
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