"My Home" is a traditional Scottish or Northumbrian pipe tune. It is used by military bands as a march past, but a slow march contrasting with quick march pasts such as "Highland Laddie".[1][2]
Recordings
- 1956 Jack Armstrong on Northumbrian Pipe Music
- 1964 The Gordon Highlanders Military Band and Pipe and Drum Corps
- 1969 The Pipes And Drums Of The Tenth Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
References
- ↑ There Was A Piper, A Scottish Piper John T. MacKenzie - 2001 "I had been very nervous then, because I could play only two tunes — march pasts, namely “My Home” and “The Highland Laddie.” "
- ↑ Diana M. Henderson The Scottish Regiments - 1996 p 69 "Quick marches Highland Laddie All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border. March past in slow time: My Home, Company March, A Company, The Mucking of Geordie's Byre, B Company, The Bugle Horn, C Company McDonald's Awa' to the Wars"
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