Author: Robert Wallace

‘Wheel of Fortune’ Invitees Announced

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The City of Edinburgh Pipe Band have sent this: WHEELS ON FIRE: The City of Edinburgh Pipe Band is pleased to announce the line-up for the 2015 Pipe Majors Wheel of Fortune competition. The event, which will be held on Saturday 7th February, will feature performances from some of the world’s finest traditional musicians. It will be contested by: Alasdair Henderson, Angus J. MacColl, Angus Nicholson, Brian Lamond, Callum Beaumont, Douglas Murray, Lee Moore and Niall Stewart.  Top pipers Alasdair Henderson…

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January Pipe Band Magazine Available

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  The January 2015 edition of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s official magazine ‘Pipe Band’ is now available as a free download. Click here to get your copy or go to the RSPBA’s website. The magazine is produced quarterly by PP Publishing, and the editor is Robert Wallace. He also edits pipingpress.com. In this edition you will find a major feature on ensemble judging by Alistair Aitken, retired senior…

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Piper of the Year and Hogmanay Parties

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Robert Wallace: The winner of our Piper of the Year – chosen by pipingpress.com readers – is P/M Stuart Liddell. Stuart was placed just ahead of P/M Douglas Murray and P/M Richard Parkes. I am sure voters will have been impressed by Stuart’s successes on both the solo and band platforms but more than anything by the brilliance of his playing, and, of course, that of his band, Inveraray & District….

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Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships

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The Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championship have issued this press release: ‘Scotland’s National Instrument in Danger of Extinction’ The iconic sight and sound of pipers playing Auld Lang Syne at Hogmanay street parties could be under threat – according to piping enthusiasts who are campaigning for more tuition in state schools. More than 75,000 people are expected to descend upon Princes Street on December 31 to attend one of the world’s…

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New CPA Grading Committee Announced (comments added)

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It is All About Perception By Robert Wallace The Competing Pipers’ Association have announced their new Grading Committee as follows: Colin MacLellan (Chair), Iain Speirs, William McCallum, Douglas Murray, Finlay Johnston, Glenn Brown, Cameron Drummond (light music only), Callum Beaumont (piob. only). All highly qualified individuals with more lustrous medals between them than a particularly industrious jackdaw. They have been charged with allocating status to their peers (peers in every case except the chairman who no longer competes). More…

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