Editor’s Notebook: 2026 Majors/ RSPBA Fundraising/ Mod Piping/ Lochnell Championship/ Letters

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I wonder how the RSPBA are getting on with the planning for next year’s major championships? Will it be five or the three and a half we had this year? Looking back it seems there was confirmation of the Worlds, the Euros, the Scottish and the UKs for 2026. The latter was a bit if a non-event given the date on which it was held (July 12) but the Association…

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News from Canada

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St Andrew’s College in Ontario, Canada, are looking for a new Director of Piping & Drumming. The full time job begins in August next year. The prospectus reads: Our Pipes & Drums program has been in existence since 1915. With the help of world-renowned piping and drumming teachers, aspiring pipers and drummers can begin their journey at St Andrew’s and graduate with a lifelong hobby of piping or drumming, with…

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Review: ‘Back from the Battlefield’ Recital

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‘It will take more than a storm to derail me’, was Duncan MacGillivray’s response to the threat of cancellation of Inverness Piping Society’s recital last Friday night, writes Les Hutt. Duncan’s journey home was to be a serious challenge thanks to Storm Amy and the high winds and rain which blocked many roads and brought down power lines across the Highlands. Nevertheless, an enthusiastic crowd of around 60 came to…

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The Importance of Schools Music Education

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In Scotland we have become inured to idiotic statements from well paid public employees and politicians struggling to connect the family brain cell with their vocal cords. This produced another candidate for dunce of the decade last week. In a live-streamed statement the Head of Education at East Ayrshire Council declared her opposition to schools music teaching by stating that she was ‘no [not] really seeing the point of a…

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Capt. John MacLellan Memorial: Updated with Comment and Photos

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The 12th annual Captain John A MacLellan MBE Memorial Piping Championship was held at the Army School at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh, today (Oct.4). P Piobaireachd, 8 entries, 6 played: 1 Callum Beaumont, £300 – Craigellachie 2 William McCallum, £240 – Edinburgh Piobaireachd 3 Finlay Johnston, £200 – MacLeod of MacLeod’s Lament P MSR, 8 entries, 7 played: 1 Sarah Muir, £190 2 Finlay Johnston, £160 3 William McCallum, £130 4 Callum Beaumont, £110:…

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