Colonel's Academy introduces bagpiper band for students

For the first time in Indore district, Colonel’s Academy School, Mhow is introducing a bagpiper band for the school students. A bagpiper band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.

In the bagpiper band, there is a section of pipers, who play bagpipe, a section of snare drummers often known as side drummers, several tenor drummers and one or two bass drummers. A bagpiper band involves 6 to 25 pipers, 3 to 10 side drummers, 1 to 6 tenor drummers and 1 bass drummer. 

Principal of the Colonel’s Academy School Keran Bahadur told The Pioneer that music is the soul of life and the melodious music played by the bagpiper band will energise students and keep them motivated and students will connect themselves with the music. Besides the music, the bagpiper band will also induce discipline and the importance of timing. The basic working of bagpiper band is disciplined and synchronised parade and accurate timing of musical changes. The bagpiper band will also motivate the students to join defence forces.

Besides this, the school is also introducing Edu sport for the students of class I to class V, which will enhance the physical and mental development of the students and incline students towards the sports because the healthy mind is in a healthy body.

The social project of the Colonel’s Academy School, ‘Handful of Rice’ will cover the larger area  in which students bring foodgrains and clothes from their houses and donate them in the school and every weekend, the students go to nearby villages of Mhow tehsil and donate the grains and clothes to the needy people, especially to the senior citizens.