I hear the RSPBA’s Board of Directors are looking at ways of better using the Friday of the World Pipe Band Championships. One suggestion is that the Friday becomes the Juvenile World Pipe Band Championship day with all Novice and Juvenile bands and Junior Drum Majors completing their contests that day with a separate prizegiving on conclusion. Prizewinners from the Friday might be invited to take part in the finale…

Pipe Major Finlay McGhee of RAF Waddington Pipes and Drums, will be thinking of his grandfather on Remembrance Day and carrying his medals in his tunic pocket.  Willie McGhee DCM enlisted in the 1/5 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 aged 17. He served in Gallipoli from June 1915 to December 1916. During the Dardanelles Campaign he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry. [wds id=”2″] His citation in…

Full results and pictures. Piobaireachd for the Dr Calum MacCrimmon Bratach Gorm (7 tunes) 1 Glenn Brown, Farewell to the Queen’s Ferry 2 Finlay Johnston, Lament for the Children 3 Roderick MacLeod, Battle of Auldearn No 2 4 Alasdair Henderson, Big Spree 5 Callum Beaumont, Lament for the Earl of Antrim Glenn Brown, Bratach winner and Callum Beaumont, overall London Champion Open Piobaireachd for the William Gillies Cup (6 tunes)…

The Times had a story yesterday stating that classical music has increased in tempo over the years. According to independent research, performance time of Bach’s double violin concerto had fallen from 17 minutes in 1961 to 12 minutes in 2016. Has the same accelerando affected piping? Perhaps in ceol mor. Perusing the Masters of Piobaireachd series you can listen to tunes played at what I would suggest is a more…