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A New Tune for Major John M. Allan MBE

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Earlier this month, seven former pipers from the Queen’s Own Highlanders visited Major John Allan MBE at Castlehill Care Home, Cradlehall, Inverness. The purpose of the visit was to present John, now 89, with a new piobaireachd as a thank you for all that he did for those Army pipers who had the good fortune to attend the various courses run at the Army School of Bagpipe Music (ASBM), Edinburgh…

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Very Large Entry for Annual Scottish Pipers’ Association Professional Competition

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Entries for the Scottish Pipers’ Association annual professional competition are oversubscribed in all grades except P/A Piobaireachd, President Logan Tannock has announced. Entries close on Sunday, March 24. Nine have entered the P/A Piob so far. Other grades have 25 plus pipers lined up with a waiting list in lieu of cancellations in place. The competition is sponsored by the Piobaireachd Society, and the Competing Pipers’ Association. Pipers entered are…

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Vintage Bagpipe For Sale

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Well known piper Colin Campbell, Aberlour, is selling a vintage J&R Glen bagpipe.  Colin writes: The pipes are half Sterling silver on ebony. The wood is in superb condition: no splits, repairs or cracks.   The only blemishes are two tiny marks on the blowstick bulb and some surface marking on the bass drone top’s ivory. The pipes are so good I had silver put on them in 2008 by a…

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Setting the Record Straight on Reid v Ross in the 1923 Gold Clasp

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We are very grateful to piping historian Jeannie Campbell for helping us put the record straight regarding the tie for the Clasp between Willie Ross and Robert Reid at the 1923 Northern Meeting. Jeannie has produced two pieces of corroborating evidence which show that Craigie Calder (see last weeks’s story here) was misled in his assertion that the award should have been split between the two piping titans. Jeannie has…

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A Short History of Piping and the British Legion Golden Jubilee 1971

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The following article is taken from a programme published for a Massed Pipe Bands and Beating of Retreat on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade in May 1971. The occasion was the Golden Jubilee of the Royal British Legion. The note may have been written by Captain John MacLellan, one of the main organisers of the event. Antiquity obscures the precise origin of the sophisticated modern bagpipe but it is known that it…

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