Pipe-band
A pipe-band is a musical unit very running in the Anglo-Saxon countries and more particularly in Scotland. It is composed of Cornemuse S Scottish and percussions (clear case, large case, etc). This composition found its origin within the British imperial armies, when the Scottish pipers approached the English drums. This military origin is currently always sensitive: a pipe-band is appreciated for the quality of its music but also for its rigorous behavior and its impeccable operations, carried out with the step.
The pipe-band can occur in statics but generally play while ravelling.
The drum-major , or drum major, precedes the musicians. It launches the orders and gives the departure of the pieces. During the procession, all the players concentrate on his stick or mace, a stick of command whose movements make it possible to organize the operations (to suspend walk, to start a turn, to form a circle, to start a half-turn out of drawer…), and synchronize the stop of the execution of a piece.
The pipers, or pipers follow. The first of them, the pipe-major, is a musical reference and an authority within the formation.
The percussionnists or drummers finish the formation, of which the structure is dictated by acoustic constraints: the instruments which give and support the rate/rhythm are placed at the rear, so that the pipers hear them easily. One finds three types of drums in this section: the clear cases, which interpret the essence of the rhythmic part, the " basse" who gives the tempo for all the formation, and finally the toms, or " ténors" discrete with the ear but very important for the eye, because of the winches that the musician carries out with his mailloches and whose public is friant.
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Internal bond
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