Usually when you see Highland figures you see in poses marching with rifle or sword or playing the bagpipes. When I saw this pose years ago highlander playing I had to add it to the collection. Lone Star also did drum and Bass drum plus two different bagpipers. why they did not do other band poses I have no idea.
That is a hard to get pose; wonder is was sold in only one set configuration or not? Most set do not carry it. Luckily I do have one too, but took me years to get it too and because was in a mix job lot. No easy to see around at all!!No wonder it run high on bid every time I see it!!
Erwin
It is a hard pose to find. In batch of figures I found this one there were another of the figure but it was badly damaged. I feel the hardest highlander pose to get is the Crescent 60mm Highlander dancing across cross swords. I got one for a friend in the UK and one for Laurie.
Now that the Statues of Limitations has kicked in I’ll relate the story of a visit to my local 5 & Dime back in the day when they had open bins of Toy Soldiers and on one visit they had a bin full of Crescent Grenadier Guards Band figures and I really wanted a Bugler but had already spent my weekly Quarter so it was going to be a snatch and grab but I could hear my Mom’s voice so was hesitating but our local Eddy Haskell was with me that day and was urging me on so while I was looking around for a sales lady I snatched it and stuck it in my pocket with out looking at it,When we got outside a few blocks away took him out of my pocket and it was a TROMBONE player instead of a Bugler,Eddy thought it was the funniest thing, I didn’t but I wasn’t going to go back to try again.
Didn’t realize that these fellows were scarce. I’ve got several unpainted ones. To me, they are humorous. Being a musician (four years high school marching band, four years college marching band and many other musical organizations — orchestra, jazz bands, rock bands, etc.), I always found the idea of a traditional highland pipe band that included trombone players to be some sort of inside joke.
George
I do not know how scare these figures are. Over here they do not turn up but over in the UK they could be very common. I just found it odd they did a trombone player.
Well for some reason I went to search as a matter of curiosity and appear that that trombone is being used by Scottish music army band for some good time. Least that what many pictures shows if you just Google in many photos from early XX century till now.
So apparently is part of the British-UK unity culture heritage integration in the Scottish military music bands.
You would naturally see trombones in a traditional brass band, whether they wear highland garb or not. As I recall the Lone Star set included pipes and drums and trombones. That instrumentation would not have occurred naturally, but if you are a musician, like I suggested above, it is a bit of a joke, pipes and drums and trombones. Lions and tigers and trombones, oh my.
George
I agree the trombone pose is a joke.
The trombone was useful for hiding the bottle of Whisky in, the sporran was usually to low – it’s the angle of the dangle…..
Should have had a tuba, you can hide much more booze.
Good idea, Ed, but after eight plus years of playing and marching with a tuba/sousaphone, I can tell you, there was no place to hide any booze in one. The accumulated spit and other stuff was just plain disgusting. Now, the deep pockets in the band uniform jacket, that’s another story, you could hide all sorts of contraband in there.
Ugh, sounds bad.