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History: The Late John MacDougall and his Family's 150 Years of Piping

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We are grateful to the Aberdeen Evening Express newspaper for publishing the family history of one of the most gifted pipers of the post-WW2 era, the late John MacDougall. The paper reveals interesting details about John’s past and how the family tradition is being carried on. It is headlined ‘Piping Through the Ages’. The above picture shows John MacDougall as a boy piping with his father in the Bucksburn Pipe Band….

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Results from the Edinburgh CLASP Event

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Organiser Margaret Dunn reports on the Piping Centre’s popular CLASP competition……. Please find attached the results from today’s CLASP competition [13/1/18] which was held in two venues, the Scots Guards Club and the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, Edinburgh. The picture shows (l to r) Greig Canning (judge), David McRobb (Grade 2 overall winner), Joris Panis (Grade 3 overall) and Harry Walters (Grade 1 overall). Overall winners: Grade 1 – Harry Walters…

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Winter Storm – Full Results with wins for Sarah Muir, Alastair Lee, Grant Cassidy and Andrew Elliot

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Our Special Correspondent reports: Cool running in chilly Kansas. With a record number of competitors, the event ran for around 12 hours, using multiple rooms, venues and facilities in the Winter Storm Campus. The judges were allocated across the lot and full marks to that crew for sticking at it through the day. They only have the Workshops and Gala Concert to worry about today. The blue ribbon events were taken…

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PP Ed's Blog: South Florida/ Donald McBride/ Crossgare/ Burns Night/ Colin MacLellan

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Noah Morrissette of the South Florida Pipe & Drum Academy: Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a fantastic holiday. It seems to be quite cold everywhere. Here in South Florida we’re experiencing highs in the mid 70s all week. We hope all of our students and instructors living in the north and in Scotland are keeping warm. I bet you’re counting the days until you get to come to…

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PP Academy: Three Experts Offer Advice on How to Play Reels

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Piping Press is a free resource for all pipers and pipe bands. Our aim is to educate, inform and entertain. Our learning pages, under the banner of PP Academy, have lots of advice and knowledge on how to be a better piper or band and cover all aspects of performance and tuning. Click on the highlighted PP Academy link above or the Tuition tab at the top of this page…

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