Guide to the Games News/ John Drysdale

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Bryan Spalding, Piping Convenor at Inveraray Games: I wonder if you would be kind enough please to distribute the following press release to your readership/membership? We are currently updating our Games website and the website administrator is updating our entry system. This work should be completed later this or early next month and we intend to open entries for our contests after successful testing. The scheduled date for entries opening…

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Livingstone Memorial Report

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It is several years since I was in Canada so I was pleased to accept an invitation to judge the Livingstone Invitational solo contest run by the Niagara-Hamilton Branch of the Pipers and Pipe Band Association of Ontario. You can get a direct flight from Glasgow and that brought me seven hours or so later to Toronto to be met by my old Muirheads friend Mike MacDonald, the man immortalised…

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Editor’s Notebook: Military Piping Book/ Ceòl Mòr Workshop/ Band Numbers/ UK Championship Draw/ Inveraray Concert

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The Piobaireachd Society has published a new book on piping in the British Army. The author, the late military historian and amateur piper, Diana Henderson, describes the ways in which the great Highland bagpipe was taught in the British Army from 1650 to 1959. By quoting from original sources, the author outlines the extraordinary efforts of the Society in establishing and then supporting the ‘Army Class’, the foundation for today’s…

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RSPBA Pipe Band College Controversy

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Piping Press has obtained a copy of a letter sent to all RSPBA exam assessors by the former Piping Principal of the Association’s Pipe Band College, Jim Campbell. Jim is a highly respected pipe band adjudicator and a lifelong servant of the Association. For the avoidance of any confusion or spin we reprint his letter in full (below). The background to it is the lengthy inquiry into the College commissioned…

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Piobaireachd Society News

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The Piobaireachd Society’s Annual Recital of Ceol Mor, ‘Scotland’s Hidden Treasure’, will be held in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, on August 9th. The invited pipers are Gold Medal prizewinner Sean McKeown, Ontario, and 2025 Silver Medallists Callum Wynd and Kyle Cameron. Each will play two piobaireachd. There will be three tunes before the interval and three after. The pipers play in continuous with no tuning in between performances. The tunes…

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