skirl

Bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 75 years through the skirl o’ the Pipes and Drums, the beauty of Highland Dancing, the brawn of Scottish athletics, and the sharing of clan history!

At 7pm on Tuesday 6 March 1923 listeners heard the skirl of "Hey! Johnnie Cope" on the bagpipes, after which John Reith, the general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, bent towards the microphone and announced that "5SC, the Glasgow station of the BBC, is calling".

Thousands of Scotland fans are in London ahead of their Euro 2020 match with England - but the skirl of the bagpipes has largely been drowned out by a 1970s disco classic.

"It had all the strange, wild, emotional force of the skirl of a bagpipe," wrote Herbert Warren Wind.

Boats sounded their horns across Bristol harbour, while in Oban the high school pipe band added their skirl to the vote of thanks.