The Tattoo presents a host of international performers, military and civilian. Bands of all sizes and description have been joined by dancers, steel bands, flag-wavers, drill teams, zulus, camels, elephants, cavalry, motorcyclists, and police dogs. But at the heart of every Tattoo's universal appeal is the stirring sight and sound of the massed pipes and drums from the Scottish regiments.
Each year about 217,000 people attend the Tattoo, while another 100 million watch it on television. The word 'tattoo' in fact derives from the cry of inn-keepers in the Low Countries in the 17th and 18th centuries. At closing time, the fifes and drums of the local regiment would march through the streets, their music signalling a return to quarters, and the shout would go up - 'Doe den tap toe' ('turn off the beer taps').
From this beginning, a 'tattoo' became a ceremonial performance of military music by massed bands. The range of music presented at the Edinburgh Tattoo is now as diverse as the countries represented; from pomp and circumstance to showbiz razzmatazz - with just about everything in between. Ending with a lone piper playing on the Castle ramparts the ambitious spectacle finishes on a spine tingling emotional note.
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