It seems that with this fallow period in piping and pipe band competition, when participants are stuck at home, capable pipers with fertile minds have made good use of the time and turned to composition. The results are that we have many new piping pieces for us to study and play.    By Duncan Watson Some old tunes have certainly stood the test of time and doubtless some of the new ones will…

The Competing Pipers’ Association have sent this: The results of the C grade round of the CPA Online Competition are as follows: C Grade Piobaireachd – 40 competed1st – Bradley Parker2nd – Scott Armstrong3rd – Chris Gray4th – Luke Kennedy5th – Brodie Watson-MasseyJudges: Patricia Henderson & Bob Worrall C Grade MSR – 47 competed1st – Bradley Parker 2nd – Luke Kennedy 3rd -AlexGehrig 4th – Teddy Krogh 5th – Andrew…

Dr Jack Taylor reports on Aboyne Highland Games’ innovative solo piping competition: ‘An excellent response; 32 entries. There has been one withdrawal so I am offering that place on a first come first served basis. Anybody wanting it should let me know ASAP on jackandmarytaylor@gmail.com or text 07999955386. Then complete and send the entry form https://forms.gle/noPNNJPjAboPXRYH7 – six piobaireachd, three MSRs. ‘The entries are split 2:1 UK/US, the field is high quality, so the…

If agreement can be reached the RSPBA’s World Solo Drumming will be moved to a new date for 2020, December 5. The change follows discussions between the Association’s Music Board and the hosts Glasgow Caledonian University. Interested parties are asked to offer their views on the date change by August 24. In other changes: A new Adult Section for tenor drummers will be added with the title of the tenor…

Two new books of pipe music have been published in the last few weeks. The first, ‘A Boys’ Brigade Collection of Bagpipe Music’ is by Mr John Shone and the second ‘Eat, Sleep, Pipe, Repeat’ is by Kyle Warren. All proceeds from Mr Shone’s book go towards the Boys’ Brigade, the movement founded by Sir William Smith in Glasgow in 1883. Mr Shone, a former competing piper and an active…