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New Recordings of Ronald Lawrie and Jimmy Young/ Benbecula Young Piper of the Year

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Thanks to Piobaireachd Society President Dr Jack Taylor for forwarding new archive recordings to Piping Press. They are from the Society’s Robert Reid audio archive and feature P/M Ronald Lawrie and Jimmy Young playing at the 1956 ‘Echoes of Oban’ concert held at the College of Piping. P/M Lawrie, Gold Medallist and Pipe Major of the City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band, plays his own tune Glenfinnan Highland Gathering –…

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Duncan Johnstone Memorial Results

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This annual competition was held in the Piping Centre, Glasgow, on March 10. It is run by the Centre in conjunction with the Competing Pipers’ Association. Winners and members of Duncan’s family pictured above. Read about the master piper here. B Piobaireachd: 1 Steven Leask 2 Kristopher Coyle 3 Steven Gray 4 William Rowe 5 Ben Mulhearn Judges: P Henderson, A Johnston B MSR 1 Ross Miller 2 Calum Brown…

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Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championship – Full Report

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From our Juvenile Grade correspondent…….With almost 100 band performances across eight competition segments, it was a full pattern and a very positive sight to behold. Band members hustling and bustling along corridors from their respective warm up rooms to final tuning and three performance spaces. A wide spread of Grade 1 superstars coaching their charges and, in amongst those last minute alterations, tuning, coaching and the general buzz, many readers…

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Results from the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships (Updated)

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In a bustling school in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland, almost 100 performances over eight categories. With silverware up for grabs and almost £10,000 in prize money from the Scottish Schools Piping & Drumming Trust, this is a meaningful pool for competitors travelling from all over Scotland, and one band from south of the border. The First Minister of Scotland presented the trophies. Piping Quartet 1st Lochgilphead Joint Campus 2nd Johnstone…

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RSPBA AGM Welcomes New Chairman and Rule Changes for Judges and Pipe Band College

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Eighty-four bands were represented at the RSPBA AGM held today in the Trades Hall, Glasgow (above). Beginning at 10am the meeting ran for just over two hours with healthy debate on important issues, and with representatives of the various boards and panels within the organisation presenting summaries of their annual reports. In the chair for the final time was Chairman Gordon Hamill who had previously intimated that he would be…

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