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…

By The Editor I listened to all of the bands in the Grade 1 contest at the Scottish Championships and they produced an astonishing level of performance given the deplorable conditions at Dumbarton. Apart from the first couple of bands (the winners Inveraray – pictured – were one of them) they played in a constant downpour, shirts sticking to arms, rain running down kilts, brogues saturated. This was the pipe…

Heartening attendance figures at Lochearnhead Games last Saturday. Twenty-one in the light music and 19 in the ceol mor. It must have been just like old times. Well done to all concerned. You are proving that a traditional games, with none of this grading carry-on, is still an attractive proposition for competitors. There is something viscerally satisfying at play here. Head off to a handsome Highland village, get out your…

By The Editor A new exhibition of considerable interest to pipers has opened in Edinburgh. ‘Wild & Majestic – Romantic Visions of Scotland’ debunks the myth that our tartan, our music, our kilts are all products of overblown post Jacobite and Victorian emotion. These thriving traditions did exist in the Highlands well before the time of Sir Walter Scott and James MacPherson and were nationalised and internationalised by these writers….