Sen. Kennedy's funeral mass on TV

[EagleJCS]

Given that the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) is a Scottish instrument, not Irish, I'm not really surprised there weren't any. (At least not officially. There may have been one or two pipers here & there along the route - in Boston &/or DC - that played, but the TV didn't pick them up.)

He was a few years before my time, but I understand that JFK was the one who was a fan of the pipes, which is one reason why the US Air Force Pipe Band was asked/allowed (?) to play at the interment, in addition to members of the Black Watch Pipe Band, who had just been in DC a few weeks earlier. I don't know if other members of the family were aficionados of the GHB or not.

[macwilkin]

Given that the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) is a Scottish instrument, not Irish, I'm not really surprised there weren't any. (At least not officially. There may have been one or two pipers here & there along the route - in Boston &/or DC - that played, but the TV didn't pick them up.)

He was a few years before my time, but I understand that JFK was the one who was a fan of the pipes, which is one reason why the US Air Force Pipe Band was asked/allowed (?) to play at the interment, in addition to members of the Black Watch Pipe Band, who had just been in DC a few weeks earlier. I don't know if other members of the family were aficionados of the GHB or not.

There were also contingents of from the Black Watch and the Irish Defence
Forces at JFK's funeral.

[Woodsman]

I read in the paper that at Edward Kennedy's funeral there was bagpipe music by a man in a tux. There were no phots though.