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Highland Regiments raised in the 18th and early 19th centuries employed many unique symbols to differentiate themselves from other regiments and enlisted distinctive music to announce their arrival, but as a result of the Cardwell Reforms of 1881, all British Army Highland Regiments were required to use "Highland Laddie" as their regimental march.
The hospital was one of the first two institutions established when Highland Park incorporated as a city in 1916. The primary building faces Glendale, and includes the original hospital building, built in 1918, and the attached nurses' residence, built in 1925. 47: Highland Park Plant, Ford Motor Company: Highland Park Plant, Ford Motor Company
A practice chanter made out of African blackwood by R.G. Hardie. A bagpipe practice chanter is a double-reed woodwind instrument, principally used as an adjunct to the Great Highland bagpipe. As its name implies, the practice chanter serves as a practice instrument: firstly for learning to finger the different melody notes of bagpipe music, and ...
Methodist Episcopal Church of Highland Station† 205 West Livingston Road Highland: March 16, 1981: Michigan's First Tri-Level Intersection: Woodward Avenue at Eight Mile Road Ferndale: 2007: Milford Rural Agricultural School† 630 Hickory Street Milford: September 21, 1988: Edward N. Moseman House: 33203 Biddestone Farmington Hills: June 20 ...
Chanters come in two main types, parallel and non-parallel bored (although there is no clear dividing line between the two). This refers to the shape of the internal bore of the chanter. On the Great Highland Bagpipe, the internal bore is conical: it is this that gives the chanter its exceptional volume. The Northumbrian pipes, on the other ...
The gaita finds near-cognates in Eastern European and Balkan countries where it is called gaida and gajdy. Just like the term "Northumbrian smallpipes" or "Great Highland bagpipes", each region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name. Most of them have a conical chanter with a partial second octave, obtained by overblowing. Folk ...
Many of the Highland dances now lost to us were once performed with traditional weapons that included the Lochaber axe, broadsword, targe, dirk, and flail; the old Skye dancing song, Buailidh mi thu anns a' cheann (Scottish Gaelic for 'I will strike your head') indicate some form of weapon play to music; "breaking the head" was the winning blow ...
O where and O where does your highland laddie dwell; He dwells in merry Scotland where the bluebells sweetly smell, And all in my heart I love my laddie well' [1] A broadside ballad version (words only) from slightly later in the 19th century makes references to George III and the Napoleonic wars: Oh, where, and oh, where is my highland laddie ...