Margaret Dunn reports: Here are yesterday’s results from the CLASP competition at NPC, Otago St., on Saturday January 11. A very healthy entry and overall winners are pictured below. They are (l-r) Dugald MacLeod (Grade 2), Stuart Robinson (Grade 1) and John Hunt (Grade 3). Next CLASP competition is on 28th March at NPC Cowcaddens, Glasgow.  Grade 1 Piobaireachd 1st Stuart Robinson2nd David MacKenzie3rd John Frater Grade 2 Piobaireachd1st Dugald MacLeod2nd Dagmar…

Roderick MacLeod has resigned as Principal of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, the Centre’s website has announced. No reason for the resignation was given. He has been in post for 24 years. A statement from the NPC Board of Directors read: ‘After 24 years at the National Piping Centre, Roddy MacLeod has decided to leave the organisation with effect from the end of May 2020. ‘As Principal and Director and…

Singer Pipe Band was based in Clydebank near Glasgow and featured mainly employees of the giant sewing machine manufacturer. This article is taken from the company’s ‘Singer Light’ staff magazine of April 1971. At its peak the factory employed 11,500 people shipping their ubiquitous machines around the world. Sadly the factory closed in 1980 and the band is no more, but in their day it was the perfect public relations…

Both of the following items are taken from the the December 1935 ‘Piping and Dancing’ journal. Last month we had an article which described the village of Torphichen in West Lothian, given its extensive teaching programme for piping, as the Borreraig of the 1930s. For those not au fait with piping history, Borreraig on Skye is where the MacCrimmons had their legendary school of piping from the 17th century onwards….

By John Hughes, Chairman, Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association I would like to begin by wishing everyone the compliments of the season and all the very best for 2020. This will be a very significant year for the RSPBA. It is our 90th Anniversary yet it doesn’t seem that long ago we were celebrating our 75th. I wonder if our founders back in the 1930s would ever have dreamt that…