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Editor’s Notebook: PPBSO Archive/ RSPBA Chief/ Donald Cameron/ Finlay Drynan/ Captain John

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New President Michael Grey has certainly rejuvenated Ontario’s Piping and Pipe Band Society. There’s now new archive material from the Society’s archives available, his latest Newsletter tells me. Above is film of the innovative Vale of Atholl band under P/M Ian Duncan from the North American Championships at Maxville in 1988. The blurb reads: ‘This is the last of nine bands to play on Saturday, July 30, 1988. The Vale…

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Donald Cameron, Inverness 1841 and a Letter from the North

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By Duncan Watson Hello Robert the Editor. Amidst all this stuff on the Northern Meetings of past years I’ve been reading on Piping Press, I am wondering if you could cast your memory back to about 1841, one of your earlier attendances there? The results were interesting. Piobaireachd: 1 William Smith , Gordon Castle, Piper to The Duke (Macdonald’s Salute) for which he was awarded a set of bagpipes valued 10 guineas. …

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Pipe Idol Returns/ American Pipe Band Championships/ New Fund in Eilidh’s Name

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  Piping Live!’s prestigious international Under 21 competition is back, in person, for this year, and applications are now open, writes Helen Urquhart. With four heats through the week of the festival from Monday 8th – Thursday 11th August, and a final later on Thursday, this is a great opportunity for young solo players from around the world, who will be in Glasgow this summer and aged U21 on 11th…

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Scottish Pipers’ Association Professional Results

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The annual professional competition run by the Scottish Pipers’ Association was held at the Piping Centre in Glasgow today (Apr.30). There were low entries in the P/A/Open Piobaireachd but a healthy number of pipers elsewhere. SPA President Logan Tannock thanked the sponsors, the Piobaireachd Society and McCallum Bagpipes, for their financial support for the contest, the first live professional solo event in Scotland this year. Results: P/A/Open Piob (four tunes):1 William Geddes, Old Men…

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Editor’s Notebook: Farewell to the Creeks/ Dan’s Book/ Rolf Obliers/ Williamsburg USA/ Inverness 1970

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I read somewhere on the internet the other day of a new recording by Jack Lee of JB Robertson’s [sic] 6/8 march, Farewell to the Creeks. It’s a common mistake but the tune was of course written by James Robertson, Banff, Gordon Highlander, and not the famous Scots Guardsman. Robertson Banff was the teacher of my late comrade Joe Wilson and we have covered Joe’s early life with his teacher…

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