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PP Editor’s Blog 20/2/15: Drumming Prizes etc

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Results of our poll on the drumming prize were as follows: Yes, but for side drummers only 10%   Yes, for all drummers, bass, tenor and side 40%   Definitely not, it’s a pipe band contest for goodness sake 34%   No, there are too many drummers today anyway without encouraging more 16%   So yes, most of you think there should be prizes for drummers. However a significant percentage…

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PP Editor’s Blog 13/2/15

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Today is the day which, in 1692, witnessed the Massacre of Glencoe  –  70 MacDonalds murdered under trust for alleged treason. It remains one of the darkest episodes in Scotland’s history and has captured the imagination of musicians and writers ever since Sir Walter Scott’s wrote his  little-known poem ‘On the Massacre of Glencoe’ and now an Edinburgh-based company Double Take Projections has created a video showing the words of Scott’s poem, being beamed, on location,…

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PP Editor’s Blog 8/2/15

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Last weekend, when all mayhem was meant to be breaking out in this city thanks to the first meeting of certain football clubs in three years, I found myself on Glasgow Green that same afternoon. And you know what?, a more civilised Sunday afternoon it would be hard to find in any metropolis in the world. Where was the murder, the screaming insanity the media had predicted? Was I missing…

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PP Editor’s Blog 30/1/15

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I was struck by the quality of Gordon Walker’s playing on the BBC’s Gaelic piping programme the other day: bright, full of verve, clean, crisp professional technique, a solid, harmonic pipe. It was recorded at the Northern Meeting a couple of years ago and here was a piper going for the first prize. No safety first for him. Yes, he may have lost a tad control in his Cockerel in the…

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PP Editor’s Blog: New Baby, Piob. Soc, Douglas Elmslie, National Library

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Congratulations to top pipers Craig Sked and wife Fiona on the birth of their daughter Maggie Heather who was born at 20.06 on the 21st of January in Melbourne. As you can see mother and baby are doing well and dad doesn’t look too bad either! Check out the baby’s fingers – a piper or what? President Dr Jack Taylor has announced changes to the line up for this year’s…

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