[Dixielandjazz] Bagpipes in Jazz

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Thanks to all who fed my curiosity about bagpipes and funerals.   Websites 
help illustrate it is at least somewhat widespread.  Interested in  Don's 
explanation re "high road" and "low road".  One more time I  reflect on so many, 
many tunes we innocently sang in grade school, clueless  about deeper meaning, 
although I did get "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" from the  get-go.  LOL.  And at 
least we had regular music classes with a music  teacher where we were expected 
to sing, learn to read music enough to play  tonettes, etc.
Ginny
 
In a message dated 8/21/2007 5:14:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dingle at nomadinter.net writes:

In  military funerals, the piper will play then walkaway and letting the 
sound  diminish. The Scots sogn, You take the hight road ad I'll take the 
low  road was supposed to be a farewell frin a captured Scot who was to 
be put  to death fior following Prince Charlie, and is saying good bye to 
a  compade. The "High Road" is life, the "Low Road" is death death.
"And I'lll  be in Scotland before you."
Perhaps no sound is more mournful -- or fitting  to salute a fallen warrior.
Don Ingle








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