By Robert Wallace Consistency was always going to be the key to winning this year’s World Championship. Over four performances Inveraray were the only band not to drop out of the top three, placing 2,1,2,3. Two points behind were Field Marshal whose fourth in the Medley on Saturday was to prove very costly to them. It was the weaker of the two they offered and I wonder if they should…

By The Editor Well that’s the first day of the Grade 1 contest over. Thirty performances, 15 MSRs in the morning rain, the same in the Medley in afternoon sun. After sitting through it all I know who I am backing to take the title. I’ve written it on a piece of paper for my own interest. I will make no comment on the individual performances until the results are…

By The Editor If we paid too much heed to weather forecasts in Scotland we would never go anywhere. A black deluge was forecast for yesterday but Wade Park in Aberfeldy had only one major and one minor shower during a warm, sunny day. The wrath of the Gods was reserved for the journey home. Only old India hands will have known anything like the volume of water that descended…

By the Editor Two hundred and seventy three years ago part of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebel army, five clans and their pipers, walked past my front door. How do I know that I hear you ask. Well, I’ve been reading Christopher Duffy’s authoritative tome ‘The ’45 – Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising’ and on page 403 it reads: ‘The Prince’s army left Glasgow at…

A lovely looking set of old ivory Lawrie pipes (pictured) are for sale today on the PP Online Advertising page. Check them out here. If you have pipes to sell you can support free access to Piping Press by taking out a similar ad with us. They are only £25 and you are guaranteed to reach thousands of prospective buyers. Thanks to correspondent Duncan Watson for forwarding these cuttings from…