Principal Robert Wallace reports: The first ever South Florida Pipe and Drum Academy could be classed as nothing other than an unqualified success. Thirty-three students enjoyed the best part of a week of top class instruction in the arts of piping and drumming. Based in Fort Lauderdale, the school ran for four days leading up to the city’s March 14 St Patrick’s Day celebrations. The instructors, myself, Barry Donaldson, Kansas-based…
Reader Nicholas Taitz has sent a copy of a letter he has submitted to the Chicago Tribune following their recent controversial comments on piping and pipe bands: ‘I am a keen piper, and I was very much offended by your article as above. The article is pejorative in the extreme about the bagpipes, which those of us who know them call the ‘pipes’. Your writer clearly has limited acquaintance with piping,…
The College of Piping has cancelled its New England School for 2015 due to ‘lack of interest’. The school has been running at various venues in the north-east US for the past five years with the 2014 camp at the beautiful Endicott College in Massachusetts considered an outstanding success. Former Principal Robert Wallace, who inaugurated the school in 2010, said it was disappointing that after so much hard work in establishing it, it had…
Letters today from Alan Cardwell re his father Denver, Matt Pantaleoni re the Crieff debacle and Jimmy McIntosh on piobaireachd embellishments. The latter mentions John MacDonald of Inverness, Seumas MacNeill, John MacFadyen, Capt. John MacLellan, Ed Neigh, Jim McGillivray and Bob Worrall. Read all letters here.[wds id=”8″] William MacLean’s transliteration of the Gesto Canntaireachd has just passed its 100th download. The book is free here. Read about P/M MacLean here….
Bands and drum majors can now enter by paper and online for all RSPBA Major Championships. The process has been improved from last year. New History feature added today on piping in 1844; check it out here. South Florida Pipe and Drum Academy concluded last weekend. Successful week; report and pix to follow. Tom Johnstone has been in touch re this year’s Lorient Festival. ‘The three pipers from Scotland competing…
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