My gut reaction is: play anything appropriate - there are lots of options - but please, please, please don't play Amazing Grace! I don't think one should do anything that might contribute to that awful piece of slop becoming a part of the Northumberland repertoire too. It would be dreadful if it ever became a standard feature of funerals on this side of the Atlantic the way it has in the States. And in the States the problem is not just with funerals: over there, there are only two tunes associated with bagpipes (of any type), namely Amazing Grace and that other one.
There was no Amazing Grace at the Cenotaph this morning and I think you may agree that the somber ceremony of commemoration was still pretty effective. And don't play effin' Highland Cathedral either!!!! Paul Gretton -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
