The duties of regimental pipers are too numerous to give in detail, but it may be worth while to describe “Reveille” and “Tattoo.” “Reveille” is generally sounded at early morn by the bugler on duty, or sometimes by all the buglers followed by the pipers and drummers playing round the camp to rouse the troops. No sooner is “Reveille” sounded than the camp becomes animated with busy men preparing for the routine of the day. The tune is usually “Up and waur them a’, Willie,” “Hey, Johnnie Cope,” or sometimes “Up in the morning’s no for me.” As “Reveille” begins the day, so “Tattoo” is the signal that another day has gone. The guards turn out and stand under arms, picquets are mounted and sentries posted, all in undress and greatcoats, and gates are closed for the night. Of all ceremonies in which a pipe band is engaged, “Tattoo” is the most attractive to spectators. Drummers and pipers march to the ground in full kilt and feather, and form up in perfect silence, save for the curt word of command. The buglers form up in front of the pipers, and at the order, “Sound off,” a shrill blast is sounded by the buglers, who then disappear. Drums are slung and pipes placed in position. At the word of command the tattoo rolls are gone through, then the order, “Quick march,” is given, and the band steps off, taking up the usual rolls as in an ordinary march. They march and counter-march the length of the parade ground, and come to the halt in the exact position they started from. Then the music ceases, and the tattoo rolls are beat off as before, after which all are marched back to quarters and dismissed. Old Highland tunes are invariably played for “Tattoo,” “My Faithful Fair One,” and the “Cock o’ the North” being favourites. Other tunes, too, have been dedicated by custom for special occasions—as, for instance, “Highland Laddie” for the march past, or when troops advance in review order; “The Crusaders’ March,” for reviews and inspections, at mess, tattoo, or parade; “Bannocks o’ Barley Meal,” or “Brose and Butter,” for breakfast, dinner, or tea, and sometimes for officers’ mess; and “Hey Johnnie Cope” as the warning for parade. “The Haughs o’ Cromdale,” as is well known, is always played by the Gordons’ pipers when the regiment is at the charge, though, by some inexplicable slip, it got mixed up with the “Cock o’ the North” at Dargai.