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Robert Reid Pipes for Sale at Glasgow Auction House

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The family of Robert Reid have put up for auction selections of pipes and chanters belonging to the famous piper. There are six lots comprising full sets of pipes, a ‘child’s set’ and two ‘small’ sets, and a box of miscellaneous joints and chanters. They will go under the hammer at McTears in Glasgow this Thursday, December 12, at 10am. One set could be that which is featured in the…

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Editor’s Notebook: Reid Pipes/ RSPBA Majors/ SPA Veterans/ Brittany Events

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An intriguing story has come in following yesterday’s about Willie Reid’s ‘MacDougall’ pipes. Reader Robert Stewart writes, ‘As a teenager I new Willie Reid well. ‘Latterly, before emigrating to New Zealand, he was P/M of the Glasgow Fire Service Pipe Band. On one of my regular visits to his barber shop he was quite excited. ‘One of his bandsmen had attended a fire at an old cottage and found a…

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Were Pipes Which Belonged to P/M Robert Reid Made by J&R Glen or MacDougall, Aberfeldy?

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In 1967 Willie Reid, Robert’s brother, came to New Zealand with two sets of pipes. One was his own 1910 Hendersons, the other a set he said were owned and played by the famous Robert, but not the pipes you always saw him with in photographs. By David Philip Willie and local piper Barry Brougham became friends and at the time Barry was doing well on the solo boards. At some stage…

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History: Teaching Teachers 50 Years ago

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The following is from the Oban Times of 51 years ago and is by their then piping correspondent John MacFadyen. It mentions the Institute of Piping. This body was formed of the Piobaireachd Society, the Army School and the College of Piping and was the forerunner of today’s Piping and Drumming Qualifications Board… …….The Institute of Piping course for teachers has got off to a flying start and for the…

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Editor’s Notebook: Leslie’s Pipes/ Schools Jobs/ EUSPBA Vote/ John’s Book/ Piping Pop Groups

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Next Friday (December 6) a set of pipes that belonged to the late Dr Leslie Craig will go under the auctioneer’s hammer in Glasgow. Great Western Auctions have put a price of between £1,200 and £1,600 on the Robert Gillanders instrument. The description reads: ‘A full set of ebonised white metal and ivory mounted Scottish Highland bagpipes. The mounts hand engraved with a thistle foliate pattern; together with an RG…

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