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Greg Harley

Greg Harley ("Greg the Piper"), Lincolnshire-based military bagpiper available for weddings and events, guest on the Chanter and Banter! podcast.

Sep 30, 2026

KayHOST
14:25
Go for it.
14:27
So this cassette tape, obviously, was the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and on the front of it, on the front of the album, there was the pipe major, uh, in his full, uh, uh, Army number ones, um, feather bonnet, the, the, the full works.
14:39
And, uh, years and years down the line when I was in the Air Force, it would've been two or three years ago, I was talking to someone about this album, and they go, "Oh, yeah.
14:47
That's, um, that's Brian.
14:49
He's, he's joined the RAF now." So it turns out it's a guy called Brian Brotherton who was the, uh, he, he joined as a boy soldier, and up through the ranks, went to become the pipe major of the regiment.
15:01
Uh, they recorded this album.
15:03
He then commissioned and, and left as a lieutenant colonel.

24 MINS LATER

39:25
Is it the same in, in a mil- in the RAF Pipes and Drums more specifically? Is it still, like, super based on what events you can play at or what, um, competitions are coming up?

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