Piping Proficiency

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Piping Proficiency

• By PO (SCC) E Gray

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This Course will Include

• Naming the parts of the boatswains call.
• A brief history of the boatswains call.
• The different notes and pipes.

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The Parts of the Boatswains Call
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How to Hold

• Put the buoy into the palm of your hands
• Put you index finger over the top between the two
  ridges on the Call
• Put your thumb at the front of the keel
  underneath
• Keep all of your fingers left over straight!

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Terminology

• The Call
• The Boatswains Call and Chain
• To Pipe
• To make the sounds
• Pipes
• The orders passed

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The Different Notes and Pipes.Basic Piping

• Plain high and low

• Still
• Carry On
• General Call
• Call the Boatswains Mate
• Pipe the Side

NOTES
PIPES
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The Still

• This is used at colours and evening colours
  within the corps. Along with other uses.
• When someone hears the still they come to the
  position of attention.

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The Carry On

• This tells the ships company that they can carry
  on with their duties
• It is generally used in conjunction with the side
  and the still

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The General Call

• This call has a sharp stop to it half way
  through. To do this put your tongue into the end
  of the call.
• This is followed by and order which ranges from
  putting kit away to being called to colours etc.
  this is the most common pipe used in the SCC

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Call the Boatswains Mate

• Sound six short high notes.
• You use it to call the boatswains mate, i.e if
  the boatswains mate is needed back on the
  gangway.

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Pipe The Side

• When you hear this you are required to stand to
  attention
• You will hear this when an officer arrives on
  board

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Piping The Side

• Sounded Twice
• Afloat
• 1. As bow oar is brought in and ends when there
  is no way.
• 2. As the VIP climbs the ladder and ends when
  VIP steps onboard.

• .

• Ashore
• 1. As the car draws alongside the unit or
  by foot at a pre- determined point.
• 2. As the VIP approaches the gangway and
  ends as VIP steps onboard.

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Who Can Be Piped Over the Side?

• Her Majesty the Queen
• The Royal family when in RN or RM uniform.
• RN officers of Flag Rank.
• RN officers in command of HM ships or shore based
  establishments.

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Who Can Be Piped Over the Side? Contd.

• Sea Cadet Officers when in uniform
• District Officers (DO) (or Assistant District
  Officers (ADO) when representing the DO).
• Commanding Officers (when arriving and leaving
  their own unit or when going to another unit at a
  pre arranged time)

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The History Of The Boatswains Call

• Can be traced back to the days of the Crusades of
  1248
• It was worn as a badge of rank of the Lord High
  Admiral Of the English from 1485 and by his
  successor until 1562.
• After 1562 it was used in English Fleets to pass
  orders.
• And its only been known as the Boatswains Call
  since 1671

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The Different Notes and Pipes.Advanced Piping

• Trill high and low
• Warble

• Lash up and stow
• Dinner Call
• Pipe Down

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Lash up and Stow

• Can be known as the Special Call or Lash up and
  Stow.
• Has a verbal order which must be said afterwards.
  Heave Ho, Heave Ho, Heave Ho, Lash up
  and Stow all the hands turn out.

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The Dinner Call

• Used to call officers to dinner.

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Pipe Down

• Used to get peoples attention.
• To advise people that it is now time for
  bed/lights out.

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The History Of The Boatswains Call

• Can be traced back to the days of the Crusades of
  1248
• It was worn as a badge of rank of the Lord High
  Admiral Of the English from 1485 and by his
  successor until 1562.
• After 1562 it was used in English Fleets to pass
  orders.
• And its only been known as the Boatswains Call
  since 1671