Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band

[vampvixenluna13]

i am a miller and descended from the macfarlane clan

[riddeon16]

I am a Macfarlane, and I've never actually met another outside of my close family. I just wanted to say how proud I am to be part of something so ancient and powerful. Loch sloy. This I'll defend.

[kiez120]

I am McFarlane through Anne Dunlap Mcfarland! ALBA GU BRÀTH

[khay60]

My all-time favourite pipe band . . . . miss those days in Maxville listening to them practice under the trees.

[vuotopiuscuro]

great

[vandiz91]

Great to see a Band in the name of my ancestors great and proud clann. They tried to proscribe us, and ban our name from public use but the descendants of the sons of the Celtic Earls of Lennox and Parlane in particular will carry on the name forever. Loch Sloigh

[TheTimberwolfe]

LOCH SLOY!!!

[bradicalable]

i am both a mcfarlane and a weir, I can still remember the feeling of visiting loch lomond.. I can not describe the bond I felt with the place. From all the way in Australia I still call scotland home, this i'll defend.

[CrazeKillen]

YEAH CLAN CAMPBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe i just love pipe music in general :)

[XuchihaXkillerX]

so my heratige is clan MacFarlane but i've lost the name and its now Mills.... does that stop me from being able to join the MacFarlane clan?

[kevinwildcelt]

@XuchihaXkillerX Absolutely not ! Google Clan MacFarlane Society and they will hook you right up. They even have a geneology section where you can find "lost" relatives. Welcome aboard !! Clan MacFarlane Forever, LOCH SLOY !!

[xXCooroTheCrowXx]

Wow. Just wow.

[Prefont]

Is that tenor standing on one foot?

[modelfinder]

kill the mcgregor's

[modelfinder]

im a mcfarlane loch lomond is are home

[jazzman676]

I thought I'd NEVER see a video of the Mighty Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band... I just posted a comment for the other Clan MacF video on YouTube. The tenor drummer Andy Miller was a GOD... the greatest tenor drummer in the history in my opinion. I started playing tenor drum as a kid after seeing Andy at highland games with my dad. I still have a pair of tenor stick with the "tassles" on the ends... never seen a pair since. Very happy memories of this band...

[TeresaandRoger]

A proud response, sligthly dissapointed that kilts were at the wrong length...no women in band if you dont mind....the Lennox Family et al would not approve

[Salmarion2]

Loch Sloy! and to the waters of Loch Lammond!

[tenormadness60]

Andy Miller! Crank it man!!

[gordonmillerhaha]

im descended from the macfarlane clan

[AnPiobaireSicago]

BTW that is a simply massive pipe band. Well done. You Canadian bands beat hell out of the sad collections of weekend warriors that pass for pipe bands in the US. Keep your sticks on the ice!

[jimmking33]

the best frigin tenor drummer i have seen in years - much better than any grade 1 drummer- from Jim king

[EidunNorway]

...Oh and by the way, how often is it you see the tenor drummer being the center in a pipers and drums band. It's usually the base drum or a pipe major.

[EidunNorway]

The tenor drummer sort of gives this pipers and drums clan band it's identity. Love it. =))

[insertnamehere360]

the tenor drum is too slanted but other then that i like it

[ChrisZ70]

Anyone out there have a recording of a Clan MacFarlane medley selection played around 1990? I'm looking for the one whose march-on is the four-parted hornpipe called "Emily Kate MacClellan" by Scott MacAulay. I know this medley was played at Maxville in 1990 (I was there), and they may have played it at the World's that year (don't know if they went). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[irishpipermilw]

The Uilleann pipes are an off-spin of the Union Pipes. During the Renaissance era small pipes got popular and Highland Bagpipes became less common in Europe. Irish War Pipes have only two drones Seamus.

This is Clan MacFarlane were posting on. We do not have enough stamps in our book to put critiques on here.

All the best!

[AnPiobaireSicago]

Uilleann pipes developed from a gentleman's parlor instrument called the New or Pastoral Bagpipe during the mid 1700s. They have a bag, a chanter, and three drones - and that's where the similarity with GHB ends. They have more in common with the French musette or Cabrette style instruments than they do with the GHB.

[Suki40330]

LOCH SLOY!!!

[AnPiobaireSicago]

O jesus dont go there...no one knows who invented the piob mor, versions of it were played in both Ireland and Scotland from about the 10th century until the early 18th, when the irish version of the piob more became extinct. The Scottish tradition carried on although it was stronlgy influenced by its use in the Highland Regiments of the British Royal Army.

[Seamus616]

well said. i wrote that a long time ago. It has shared origins!

[07910633]

fear not fellow Scots, kingpye is nothing but a lily livered English nonce. Loch Sloy!

[Suki40330]

Lily livered...perfect description. Thank you.

[kingpye1]

ha you are a Armigerous clan. with no noble rights hahahahahahah

[ZeitgeistWI]

The Clan is the oldest form of association for mutual protection and for practical reasons of sharing history, power and resources. Long before the Lyon Court, there was the clan and although MacFarlane does not have a chief, that means little to those of us who call this clan family. Had you more an understanding of the basis and history of this clan, you would see that despite the best attempts to stamp it out of existence, it is still here and it is thriving. So your point is mute!

[damilla1958]

Loch Sloy!!!

[Suki40330]

Hello, cousins. I am also of the MacFarlane clan.

Free Scotland!

[spreadyourwings24]

I'm also from the Macfarlane clan! XD

[pipernick]

are those snares the st80 by premier?

[33david]

I still remember watching the Clan play in Antigonish, mainly I remember the fantastic tenor drummer. I was about 13 or 14, so that was probably 26 or 27 years ago.

[ZeitgeistWI]

I am a Knox. Loch Sloy!

[mishimasword]

Long live the McFarlanes, "THIS I'LL DEFEND!!!!"

[brianberlin]

Well said cousin!

[TheRoadtrain]

@mishimasword Fuck yeah bro, I have the CREST TATTOO on my Left Bicept..

FUCK ENGLAND

[thequietkidd]

Does anyone remember George Kidd?

[macfarlane0]

macfarlanes rule

[donnagazza]

my brother used to be in the band, Glen Armstrong!

[ElementFu]

im a macfarlane!!!!

[macfarlane0]

me too

[franknpiper]

Donald Cameron, Blair Drummond, and MacAlister's Dirk.

[l56g7piper]

whats the reel (the third tune)

[mctatties]

McAllisters dirk

[ArtyMac]

OMG! He's good!!!

[low56got7]

Andy Miller used to come down and play with my former pipe major (Joe Quick).

[peelbass]

Do you have an actual copy of the clan performance?

nobody in the clan seems to have one

[peelbass]

thank you also to the person who posted this video.

This brought back great memories of the Clan. I am the alto drummer opposit andy miller.. sometimes it was hard to concentrate on the music when you watch andy in awe.... Robin Lee

[brianberlin]

very true! Thanks for comments. I have some old Clan MacFarlane recordings. I'm very impressed with the quality of the drum line. I don't hear anything like it today (not that I'm any kind of expert). Thanks, Robin, for the great music!

[psychosalmon]

Man that guy's nuts! I wish my drum corp tenor drummers were like that!

[low56got7]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!! Great m.s.r. and great tenor drummer.

[19860627]

independence is comming

[NS2ON2TN]

The Clan in its heyday, what a band!! Thanks so much to whomever posted this. I certainly remember the great Andy Miller on tenor, and think of him every time I see Tyler Fry perform. Great sound from a 25 year old video.

[manepadme]

Classic style of tenor drumming. Back in the day it was all for show. That's why they have long tastles on the end of the sticks. These days the tunes are all tuned to a certain pitched and make up a solid part of the drum corps. Totally old school!

[andym240]

Thank you Brian for the complement & sharing th

Clan MacFarlane Tape  Andy Miller

[Norrie754]

that tenor drummer is fairly giein it laldy.

where is the band from?

[brianberlin]

St. Catharines, Ontario. They disbanded in 1993

[Carry1474]

hey cool i'm from Mississauga