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Beautiful. Makes me think of my Dad who was in the Argyle Southern Highlanders 1939 --1955. He played the pipes and violin

Bloody lovely

Beautifully played by all!

Beautiful!!! 👏👏👏

that was friggin awesome..

What a beautiful tribute to a kind, generous and very talented man.

Very nice!

Each an mor nan cath Uabhasach math!

Nice to see young Aussies honouring Hector...Bless him....from another McDonald in Victoria.

God bless General Hector our Hero MacDonald

Oh my this is just beautiful❤️it’s such a shame the subtitles are so far off the actual lyrics

That's a lovely arrrangement! Thank you! Here's a fiddle or flute arrangement if anyone would like sheet music or a backing track for this lovely tune: musescore.com/user/643986/scores/5517663 "Hector the Hero" is a popular fiddle tune, a classic lament composed by the great Scottish composer James Scott Skinner in 1903. It laments the death by coerced suicide of Sir Hector ("Fighting Mac") MacDonald, a popular war hero in Scotland and England, who had been the Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ceylon. MacDonald was a brilliant military strategist, an accomplished commander, and a polymath -- he spoke Hindustani, Urdu, Pushtu, Arabic, French, and English as well as his native Gaelic. At the time of his death he was the most popular and widely known war hero in Brittain, having been knighted for his service in the Second Boer War. MacDonald committed suicide in 1903 instead of facing a court martial following accusations of homosexual activity with the local Sinhalese. The scandal reaffirmed his heroic status among his native Scots, who understood that a similar scandal involving any of the aristocratic English officers would have been hushed up. They understood too that MacDonald was facing charges not so much for his perceived crime, but because as a Scot he had always been an outsider in the British military. Whatever the merit of charges of homosexuality, they were brought by a jealous British officer corps angered by MacDonald's real crime, that of being a low-born Scott who had risin through the ranks on merit alone, and who treated the local Sinhalese as equals. His funeral in Edinburgh was attended by 30,000 countrymen. Immediately after, the British government destroyed all records of the case against him, declared that there had been no basis for the charges, and declared him a glorious and unparalleled hero. See the Wikipedia article for a short biography of this amazing hero of Scotland.

There is another beautiful violin version of this by the Irish Violinist Rhoda Barfoot, also on RUclips at ruclips.net/video/5Cj8us2Lzvc/видео.html

I had this tune in my head when paddling in my seakayak under the very high Cliff of Skye island a couple of years ago ...unforgottable .. This is my favorite version. Thé pipes , thé speed , thé key of A and few ornementations but at thé wright place .. And dont worry ... you will have to drink again ( may be soon) to the health of the Irish..😀 Greetings from Normandie and thanks a million for sharing ..

This video has me in tears for a few reasons...Firstly - as a member of the Cape Town Highlanders Regiment (who claim their heritage back to the Gordon Highlanders) to know that such a historic officer and gentleman led to the inception of the regiment I am proud to serve under....Secondly - as a proud and open member of the LGBTQ+ community in South Africa; to know that one of our regiments "Founders" saw no other way out of such a vicious scandal other than to take "The Gentleman's Way Out" on March 25 1903 - could only be seen as a proud piece of our history

awesome music ...

Nicely played but why dedicate it to the Irish?