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Northern Meeting Complete Day 2 Results

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Highlight of the second day at Inverness is the Gold Clasp competition, which, with the Senior Piobaireachd at the Argyllshire Gathering, is the most prestigious ceòl mòr prize in world piping. It was a major win for Angus MacColl adding to his Senior Piobaireachd title at Oban. Angus capped a super day by taking first in Hornpipe & Jig as well. Gold Clasp1 Angus D MacColl, £1,000, Nameless, Cherede Darievea2…

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Northern Meeting Day 1 First Results Complete: Gold Medal, Silver Medal, ‘A’ MSR, Former Winners’ MSR

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Results will be added here as we get them. The 2022 Inverness Medal went to Nick Hudson a teacher at St Thomas’s Episcopal School in Houston, Texas. Nick takes piobaireachd from Mike Cusack and is a former student of the late Jimmy McIntosh. The Oban Gold Medallist, Jamie Forrester, narrowly missed doing the double when he was placed second today. Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal:1 Nick Hudson, Houston, Laird…

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How to Maximise the Commercial Potential of the World Pipe Band Championship Grade 1

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Following our recent articles on the Worlds 2022, these social media responses are worth repeating. The first is from from reader Mark Christy: In past years I too was annoyed by the inability to hear the Grade 1 bands. Indeed the free seat location was far better than the paid seat. The RSPBA should have a study of the professional production down the road. At the Edinburgh Tattoo it’s all…

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Editor’s Notebook: The Worlds, The Worlds, The Worlds

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A few more thoughts from the Green. I must respectfully take issue with one aspect of Alistair Aitken’s excellent article of a couple of weeks ago. He wrote: ‘…..one of the main reasons for pipe bands traditionally competing in a circle as the original thinking all these years ago was that the circle contains and balances the sounds much better.‘ I am not sure there was ever any trial done…

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St Andrews Games Results

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Slightly overcast on the Fife coast yesterday (Aug 28) with a whistling breeze for the March and Strathspey & Reel but the sun came out for the Jigs. March: 1 Bruce Erskine (pictured)2 Hector Munro 3 Andrew Bovan 4 Christopher McLeish Strathspey & Reel: 1 Bruce Erskine 2 Christopher McLeish 3 Andrew Bovan 4 Martin Lee Jigs (two tunes to be played): 1 Bruce Erskine 2 Andrew Bovan 3 Christopher…

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