Auckland Grammar Pipe Band
Auckland Boys Grammar Pipe Band performed in front of Epsom Normal Primary School on Thursday the 14th of May. Bag pipes originally came from Scotland then as people migrated, their music went all around the world. Now we were very lucky to have the bag pipe players from the Auckland Boys Grammar School to come and play for us. They had six bag pipe players, one base drum, four little drums and two medium drums.
The bag pipes are the hardest instruments to play in the world so they were good. They were really loud. They showed us what you need when you are playing.
Then the head leader of the group chose three people to come up on to the stage. Those three people put on three different outfits. One outfit was if you were in the war, the second one was a normal one if you were just walking and the last one was if you were in a marching band.
They played lots of lovely music that everyone liked the sound of. When they came into the hall they looked magnificent marching with their kilts. They walked in perfect order and when they came out of the hall they went from two lines to one line. They were wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas R, Room 16
Year 4