Author: Robert Wallace

PP Ed’s Blog: Thoughts on Pipe Band Judging/ Piping at Forres Tickets/ Donald MacLeod Contest/NEPADA Discount

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One fact that emerged from yesterday’s story concerning the RSPBA’s Adjudicator Panel was this: the passion and concern everyone involved has for the pipe band art. The judges themselves are dedicated to trying to get their results correct and to have in place the best system that allows that to happen. It is inevitable that there will be clashes of personality and disputes over how this should best be done. In…

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Two Top Officials Resign Their Positions Within RSPBA Adjudicators’ Panel

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Two leading office bearers within the RSPBA’s Adjudicators’ Panel have resigned over a dispute involving another member of the Panel. Convenor John Wilson (left) and Vice Convenor Joe Noble, both senior and widely respected figures in the pipe band judging community, stood down following disagreements between the Panel’s Management Board and one their newest judges, P/M Ian Duncan. Details of what the disagreement is about have not yet been made public…

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New Recordings for PP Audio Archive – Ceol Beag and Ceol Mor

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We are indebted to Breton piper Patrick Molard for supplying two outstanding recordings for the PP Audio Archive today. They are of two giants of the post war piping world, Hugh MacCallum and John MacFadyen Both were made at the Argyllshire Gathering, Oban, in 1971, and whilst for the ceol beag there is some interference from the announcer’s loudspeaker, one gets the true atmosphere of the games and one of…

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SPA KO/ Letters re 6/8 Marches/ British PB Champs Entries

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President Tom Johnstone of the Scottish Pipers’ Association on the latest semi-final of the SPA KO: ‘Both players gave superb performances tonight (Sat, April 2) and the audience vote went to Stuart Liddell. ‘Steven Leask lost the toss and played first, and played exceedingly well. Stuart started and finished his performance with what seems to have become his trademark – marching in playing and marching out playing at the end.  …

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Alex Ibell/ Alex MacIver/ SPA KO/ Clasp Draw

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We are grateful to Hector Russell, Helensburgh, for supplying these pictures of P/M Alex M. MacIver (above, leading march) and piper Alex F Ibell (below). Through the 214th Glasgow Co. Boys Brigade Pipe Band, Alex Ibell and MacIver were responsible for beginning the piping careers of P/M Ian McLellan of Strathclyde Police, Hector himself, Robert Wallace and many other Grade 1 pipers. Alex Ibell is pictured in the uniform of…

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