Alex Salmond adjusted his scrum cap and prepared to do battle on behalf of the bagpipes.
Outside after the memorial, bagpipes played taps as Perry presented a folded American flag to the family.
On summer weekends, 16-year-old Ellis Cooper-Frater heads to the beach with his swim cap, bathing suit and bagpipes.
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Typical musical instruments are the ''sopele'' shawms, always played in a pair, bagpipes, flutes and the ''tambura'' lute.
In Glasgow, several hundred people gathered in central George Square, celebrating to a soundtrack of rock music and bagpipes.
But Mr Griggs is not particularly keen on stressing the usual touristy themes of skirling bagpipes and ruined castles.
The campaigners have put together a 10-point plan and their first priority is to see bagpipes and kilts banned.
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Millin held the bagpipes above his head in the waves, making it to the beach amid the chaos and mayhem.
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He arrives back onstage to the skirl of bagpipes, still attempting to fasten his kilt - and he's onto a rousing rendition of The Proclaimers' 500 Miles.
And bagpipes, by long tradition, counted as instruments of war.
Known as "Mac", he used bagpipes in his election broadcasts.
"As I was walking toward the site, I saw these guys with the bagpipes and I just got in line and here we are, " he said as the crowd chanted around him.
It was developed after the second world war when the bombarde was added to the Scottish pipe band that had been imported complete with highland bagpipes, snare drums and a great drum.
The couple arrived to the sound of bagpipes at Middle Temple - one of the ancient Inns of Court - where the duke is an honorary barrister and member of the institution's governing body.
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In the morning, consecrated and ceremonial rituals are solemnized and a procession with the sacred icons representing the two Saints travels outside the village to a spring with holy water, accompanied by drum and bagpipes.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bagpipes wailed as students, faculty and staff members and throngs of law enforcement officials paid their respects to MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was ambushed in his cruiser three days after the bombing.
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