Scotch College: Scottish Heritage


Figure 1.-- Here we see the Scotch College Drum Corps warming up for their appearance at the 1994 Scottish festival . The College also has a pipe bnd anf Higland dancers.

The school's Scottish heritage is shown by the active Scotish music and dance program. There is a Pipe Band and a Drum Corps. There are also Highland dancers. A school protrait shows ome of the detinctive costumes worn. Both boys and girls participsate in the pipe band, although normally the band is primarily boys. In pipe bands the girls wear the boys' kilt outfits which is esenially a boys' outfit. The Drup Corps has the same kilt uniform as the Pipe Band. Sometimes the Pipe Band and the Drump Corps participate as a unit and other times they perform separately. The destinctively costumed girls in a school portrait are Highland dancers, not members of the pipe band. There are destinctive boy and girl costumes for highland dancing. The boys wear kilts and the girls dress outfits. There are normally more girl than boy dancers.

Pipe Band

Both boys and girls participsate in the pipe band, although normally the band is primarily boys. In pipe bands the girls wear the boys' kilt outfits which is esenially a boys' outfit. There normally is no difference in the uniforms. Also note pipe band wears Balmoral bonnet.

Drum Corps

The Drup Corps has the same Balmoral bonnet and kilt uniform as the Pipe Band. There are both boy and girl members and they all wear the same uniform. Sometimes the Pipe Band and the Drump Corps participate as a unit and other times they perform separately. Both are used for a variety of school functions as well as Scottish festivals and other events.

Highland Dancers

The destinctively costumed girls in a school portrait are Highland dancers, not members of the pipe band. There are destinctive boy and girl costumes for highland dancing. The boys wear kilts and the girls dress outfits. There are normally more girl than boy dancers. At the College, all of the dancers look to be girls. . A reader tells us this is because the pupils are dressed for specific purposes. The boys are dressed for membership of the Pipe Band and Drum Corps, and that is why they are wearing balmoral bonnets. The girls are dressed for performing Scottish Highland Dancing, and under modern rules of the Scottish Highland Dancing Offical Board do not wear headdress. Only male dancers do so nowadays! Incidentally the girls are wearing two forms of dress - The basic dress of the kilt, largely used for dancing the old 'tribal' dances such as Highland Fling, Sword Dance, and Reels; whereas the others are wearing what is known! as the 'Aboyne Dress', used for dancing the more feminine dances such as Flora Macdonalds Lament; The Lilt; or National Dances such as Blue Bonnets or Barracks Johnnie.








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