Inverness pupils bang the 'drum' for Rabbie Burns' birthday

YOUNG Inverness musicians would have made our Bard Rabbie Burns proud with their rendition of one of his most famous airs - using a table as an improvised drum.

Central School's P7 players learned to play A Man's a Man For A' That especially for Burns' anniversary which is today. (January 25)

Some of the pupils are with Highland Young Musicians who proudly Tweeted a video of the three young drummer-girls giving it laldy on the table top while classmates on other instruments played alongside.

Apparently High Life Highland drum instructor Drew Caldwell discovered that the small round table doubled ideally as a tenor drum!

The 1795 song written in Scots and English, is famous for expressing the belief that all people should be treated as equals.

Scottish folk singer Sheena Wellington sang the song at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in May, 1999, as did Midge Ure in July 2016.

It has been translated into many other languages.

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