Bagpipers at WWII Airshow

[freddie]

There's no 'O' in Irn Brew
Anyway, I bet the pipers sounded great. There's nothing like hearing the pipes away in the distance and following the sound.

[Macman]

There's no 'O' in Irn Brew

No "ew" either.

[MacKenzie]

There's no 'O' in Irn Brew

During World War 2, Iron-Brew was not recognised as a "standard drink" by the Government, so it disappeared from the shelves of shops for the duration of the war.
But when the war ended, as unavailable products started to return to shops, the Government brought in new food labeling regulations, and because Iron-Brew was not actually brewed, or made of iron, it had to change its name. So in 1946 Barr's Irn-Bru went on to the shelves of shops all over SCOTLAND.

http://www.scottishstrawberries.com/irnbru.htm

[auteurusa]

Rabble, I am always pleased with the amount of unexpected info I learn from the posts.

A little digging into "Irn Brw" and I now understand it's flavor comes from both caffeine and quinine. The distributor here in the U.S. is in North Carolina, so maybe I'll get my hands around a bottle soon.

Pipe tuning by sight is a skill I hope to better understand. Apparently the bass drone sections need be pulled in more or less opposing directions ? While the tenor drone in the middle requires something more ?

What is distinctive about the chanter that identifies it as belonging to a later period ?

Thanks all.

[Smallpipe]

OC Richard is correct on all instances ... The drones of the first piper are not correctly tuned ... and chanters of WWII period and much later had a sole on them to enhance the sound quality of the chanter - It was often made in Ivory ... you can see them in the picture of the WWII pipers - the little white discs underneath the chanters....
In those days pipes and their chanters were allways made of African Blackwood - the bags of leather and the reeds were ...reed ... nowadays the bags are often synthetic, the chanters often in some plastic, further imitation Ivory, and the drone reeds now use the latest modern materials like carbon fibers and others... Then you have moisture control systems and so on ... Since WWII bagpipes have evolved greatly....