A surprisingly dry and warm day at Pitlochry (Sept.12), writes the Editor. Early morning rain seemed to have put off a number of competitors and parking restrictions borne of the A9 roadworks may not have helped either. There were nine call-offs in the piobaireachd. The winner, Douglas Murray, gave a refined rendition of Lord Lovat’s Lament.
Let us hope that this win heralds a regular return to the boards for double Gold Medallist Douglas. Second place went to Hector Munro with another good performance of the Blind Piper’s Obstinacy, the tune with which he won the B Piob at the SPA early the year.
Arran Green and Ross Conner vied for third with Arran getting the nod for his crisp delivery of Battle of Auldearn No.2 over Ross’s rather cautious Old Men of the Shells. Duncan Grant gave us a competent Too Long in This Condition (some tight fingerwork) for fifth, with Eddie Gaul taking sixth with the Earl of Seaforth.
Piob: 1 Douglas Murray 2 Hector Munro 3 Arran Green 4 Ross Conner 5 Duncan Grant 6 Edward Gaul.
MSR: 1 Edward Gaul 2 Arran Green 3 Ross Conner 4 Callum Wynd 5 Douglas Murray 6 Hector Munro
Jigs: 1 Douglas Murray 2 Arran Green 3 Ross Conner 4 Callum Wynd 5 Edward Gaul 6 Douglas Baird
6/8: 1 Douglas Murray 2 Arran Green 3 Callum Wynd 4 Ross Conner 5 Greig Canning 6 David Bruce
MSR 14 & under: 1 Cailean Acamovic 2 Larry Presslie 3 Mirren Silver 4 Eilidh Squires 5 Ruaridh Lean 6 Kiran Cohen
MSR 15 & U18: 1 Arthur McKay 2 Charlie Mack 3 James Silcock 4 Cash McLeay 5 Ewan McAree 6 Morla Bruce
Perthshire U18 March: 1 Morla Bruce 2 Ruaridh Lean; S&R: 1 Ruaridh Lean 2 Morla Bruce
Judges: J Banks, B Donaldson, D Fraser, P Hunt, L Tannock, R Wallace
Bowhill Games
Piping Convenor Greig Canning: ‘Please see results below from the games today (Sept. 13) at Bowhill, Fife. A very healthy entry was cut down by a lot of withdrawals, which was disappointing for all involved. Might the football in Glasgow have been the culprit? Who knows!
‘It’s worth noting that eight played in the junior piobaireachd and all of these young pipers demonstrated excellent fundamentals of piobaireachd playing and were a credit to their teachers.’
U15 MSR:1 Cailean Acamovic 2 Jack Folan 3 Lauren Bain
U18 MSR: 1 Charlie Mack 2 Kai Hay 3 Aiden Low
U18 Piob.: 1 Charlie Mack 2 Kai Hay 3 Jack Folan
Open Piob: 1 Ross Connor 2 John Cameron 3 Cameron MacLeod 4 Duncan Grant
Open MSR: 1 Ross Connor 2 Allan Russell 3 Douglas Baird 4 Jamie Crawford
Open Jig: 1 Ross Connor 2 Douglas Baird 3 Allan Russell
Judges: J Banks, D Fraser, G Canning, N Henderson.
Chatsworth Piping
This competition was held in the grounds of the famous seat of the Dukes of Devonshire last weekend.
Piob: 1 Stuart Liddell, In Praise of Morag 2 Gordon McCready, Lady MacDonald’s Lament 3 William McCallum, Edinburgh Piob. 4 Ed. McIlwaine, Blue Ribbon
March: 1 Stuart Liddell 2 William McCallum 3 Glenn Brown 4 Alasdair Henderson
S&R:1 William McCallum 2 Stuart Liddell 3 Gordon McCready 4 Glenn Brown
6/8: 1 Stuart Liddell 2 William McCallum 3 Glenn Brown 4 Alasdair Henderson
H&J: 1 William McCallum 2 Stuart Liddell 3 Andrew Hall 4 Gordon McCready
Champion Piper: Stuart Liddell; Judges: R Huth, R Livingstone.
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