As I mentioned in my piece on the first two-day Worlds at Nottingham, I had also found among old papers the attached copies of bnads and tune lists for a local competition at New Meadowbank in Edinburgh in 1948 and the World Championships at Stirling in 1974.  I have no knowledge of the winner at New Meadowbank but Stirling was won by Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia under Tom McAllister. Here…

In recent weeks Piping Press has published material provided by reader Trevor Clydesdale showing tunes played by the Grade 1 Bands at the Worlds in 1970 and then by Ian Forbes for Cowal 1968. I have found among old papers tune lists for a local competition at New Meadowbank in Edinburgh in 1948, the World Championships in Stirling in 1974 and will cover these in a later report. For now…

Former RSPBA Adjudicator Alistair Aitken concludes his series on the difficulties facing the pipe band movement as we head towards a possible resumption of activity. The first major of 2021 is scheduled for May next year, only eight months from now…… To work effectively, for adjudication purposes, the half-circle formation would require all bands to form up in the same way. The adjudicators would need to stand, or be seated,…