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2021 Nicol-Brown Amateur (USA) Results

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This was an online competition held on October 9. Overall Champion1 Stuart Marshall, receives MacCallum Pipe Chanter and $1000 travel expenses2 Jessica Bain3 Callum Bevan4 Henry Paluch5 Trevor DeMass Piob1 Callum Bevan, Corrienessan’s Salute (receives a bound volume of the Piobaireachd Society Collection)2 Trevor DeMass, Lament for the Viscount of Dundee3 Stuart Marshall, MacLeod’s Salute4 Jessica Bain, Piper’s Warning5 Scott Long, Caber Feidh gu Brath MSR1 Henry Paluch, receives engraved…

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Northern Winter School/ Balmoral Judges/ Piobaireachd Society Lessons

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The Northern Winter School has confirmed that it will take place between November 5 -12 once more at Lohheide in Lower Saxony, Germany. World Champion drummer Stephen Creighton, leading tip of Grade 1 St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band, Dublin, has been added to the teaching faculty. Stephen has a formidable list of successes to his credit. Solo: 1989 World Junior Champion, 19 World Solo Finals, 5 Senior All Ireland titles…

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Order of Play for Captain John Contest/ Lochnell Intermediate Championship Official Preview

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The draws for the Captain John MacLellan Memorial competition have been announced. The competition will take place the Army School of Piping at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh, this Saturday October 2. It has a attracted a very high quality field with Piobaireachd and MSR competitions for all CPA grades and an Open Jig event. The order of play is as follows (use arrows to scroll through from P Grade to C):…

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Argyllshire Gathering’s Lochnell Intermediate Professional Piping Championship Draw and Tunes

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This prestigious competition for junior professional pipers will be held at Lochnell Castle, Benderloch, Argyll, a week today on Saturday, October 2. Ten leading young pipers aged 22 and under have been invited to take part.  Piobaireachd Draw and Selected Tune1 Luke Kennedy, MacKay’s Banner2 Anna Smart, Old Men of the Shells3 Bobby Allan, MacDougall’s Gathering4 Cameron May, King’s Taxes5 Hamish Drennan, Battle of the Pass of Crieff6 Andrew Ferguson, Earl of Ross’s March7 Brodie Watson-Massey, Lament…

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Focal Dystonia in Pipers – Readers Respond With Touching Personal Stories

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We make no apology for this third and final (for now) article on Musician’s Focal Dystonia (MFD). You only have to read the comments below to realise the anguish this distressing condition has caused pipers. We are grateful to these correspondents for sharing their experiences and to Norman Matheson whose erudite articles brought the matter once more to pipers’ attention. Bill Currie: ‘Some 15 years ago I consulted the late…

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