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Editor’s Notebook: RSPBA Board of Directors/ Ontario View/ Aberdeen PS/ Duthart Tune/ Black Watch Tunes

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The RSPBA’s Board of Directors met on April 15 and the minutes of the meeting were published yesterday. Out takes from the meeting are as follows: Consideration is being given to the restoration of the popular Twitter results feed at the Worlds. This was particularly useful in letting bands know the outcome of the qualifiers. Posts were made after official announcements, but they meant that band members had an instant…

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Piping Instructor George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh/ SSPDT Paid Internships Offer

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The school is seeking to recruit a ‘skilled and inspiring’ Piping Instructor to provide piping tuition to pupils from both Primary and Secondary sections of the School.  Part-time 15 hours per week; Permanent, Term-Time Only £12,928 – £14,963 per annum. The notice reads: ‘Individual piping lessons take place during the school day and there are practices for the Pipe Band and smaller groups at times by arrangement both before and…

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The KOSBs, Willie Bryson and a Mysterious Name Change of One of His Tunes

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I am fortunate to have in my possession an army piper’s manuscript book. It is dated August 1941 and it belonged to Corporal W.E. Grieve, 6th Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. It contains many competition tunes well beyond regimental basic requirements. As I was searching for tunes relating to WW2, one four-parted 6/8 march, Crossing the Odon, by the well-known Willie Bryson (pictured), caught my eye immediately. The River…

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Black Watch Regimental Museum in Perth is of Considerable Interest to All Pipers

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Many years ago I did an article for the Piping Times detailing the must-see piping monuments and venues dotted around Scotland. They included the Angus MacKay Cairn on the Nith, the College of Piping, the Bobs of Balmoral Cairn on Deeside and Calum Piobair’s monument in Badenoch. To that list you may now like to add the Black Watch Museum, Perth. Among the many hundreds of items on display are…

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Pipe Major’s Wheel of Fortune Results

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Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh was the winner of the popular Pipe Major’s Wheel of Fortune competition, which was held at Danderhall Miners’ Club in Midlothian on Saturday 29 April 2023. The event, which is hosted by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band, requires pipers to play a medley of tunes which is determined by spinning the golden chanter on the Wheel of Fortune.   The Wheel features 12 tune categories…

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