15 : Alden Biesen Pipe Band Contest 2009, Open Grade, City of Amsterdam

I encountered some mishap with his clip.

Too sad, the microphone's dead cat ( wind shield ) fell off, so there are some more or less disturbing gusts of wind roaring into the microphone ( watch the adjudicator's kilt waft up by the wind gusts, e.g. at and after 04:36 ).
So, please turn down 50 % of the bass sound of your soundcard . Even then the bass en tenor drums are quite properly audible.

There were a few more problems in this footage, could you detect ?
If not, here we go.

There was some ado about my ( permitted ) filming position within the contest area Ring 1.
That caused me to use erratic exposure a few times.

Besides, erroneously, I switched on a wrong microphone ( omnidirectional instead of directional ) so that annoying ambient chatting is audible.

So, I'm way from satisfied with this clip's technical qualities.
Nevertheless, I decided to upload this footage anyway since the band is playing so well and this clip shows the band's good performance clearly enough.
( And they carry the name of my city of residence......Amsterdam ).

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