Fire Department City of New York 
EMS Pipes and Drums
Official Web Site

 

Welcome to the FNDY EMS Pipes and Drums Kids Page!

 
 

Some Bagpipe Pictures

The  William S. Gority web site has  a collection of pictures of bagpipes from many other countries.

 

All the linked pages here open in a new browser window so when you are done with a page you can just close that window and still be right here and go to some other cool pages!!


Color some pipers! Use the links below to Print the pages and color! away!

Color the small Teddy Bear Piper.

Color the large Teddy Bear Piper.

Color the Bagpipe Man from long ago. 


Did you know the kilt (skirt) the pipers wear is made from a material with a plaid design, like these.

 


Did you know there are Famous bagpipe players?
Eric Riggler is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded piper of all time.
Eric Riggler (uilleann & Highland bagpipe player), played at the funeral for Ronald Regan, the former President of the United States, and helped play the music for the 1995 movie, "Braveheart"
 


Laugh!

Here are some cartoon jokes about pipers.



Make a paper doll piper!

Print out the doll pages. 
Carefully cut out the dolls and the clothes. 
Glue the dolls to some heavier paper. 
Dress them!

GO here for the paper doll


Bagpipes in Art
Look
at some bagpipes in art from around the world her
e.


Watch videos of pipers playing the bagpipes. 

I like this one-
The 2006 World Pipe Band Championships. It shows some really good instrument playing and piper marching bands! ! 

Boy, does he have a lot of hot air!
Watch and listen to a lone piper playing  solo in The Bagpipe Show at the Northwest Folklife Music Festival in Seattle, Washington, USA. May 27, 2006.  


Blow Hard!


Where do you blow on a bagpipe .. and where does the tune come out?