Ailis joined her local pipe band in Brechin and started competing in the 2006 season in Grade 4A, progressing quickly with the band’s promotions to Grade 3B and Grade 3A in consecutive years. Best Sellers Rank: 139,342 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) 88 in Scottish Folk. She started learning the pipes at the age of 9 and was taught by her father Alec Sutherland. Clearly this is a very partial picture but it offers important messages for. Ailis is a piper and flute player from Kirriemuir, Angus. That role has continued over the decades, through present day the current piper is Pipe Master Richard Grisdale, from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, who began his tenure in 2019. Mackay & District Pipe Band, Mackay, Queensland. The Hereditary Pipers Angus MacKay's 'Account of the Hereditary Pipers' of 1. According to the magazine The Graphic in November 1882, "Queen Victoria is awakened every morning by sound of the Royal bagpipes beneath her bedroom window the music generally lasts from eight to nine o’clock." Soon, Victoria hired Angus MacKay as the first Piper to the Sovereign, and he played in the mornings and evenings. Originally published in 1975, and written by an authority on Scottish music, this book traces the evolution of the bagpipe whilst also narrating the fortunes of the ‘Great Highland Bagpipe’ itself.
Victoria wrote to her mother during the visit, "We have heard nothing but bagpipes since we have been in the beautiful Highlands, and I am become so fond of it, that I mean to have a Piper, who can, if you like it, pipe every night at Frogmore." He cald him by name, and, comeing to the King, kneeling, his Majesty rea t him his hand to kiss and instantly played an extemporanian part Fuoris Pge i.
The tradition of a royal bagpiper began with Queen Victoria in 1843 after she and Albert visited the Highlands and stayed at Taymouth Castle, according to Bagpipe News. Photo credit: DEA / BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA - Getty Images
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