PP Advertisers G1 Reeds and Proprietor Jock Elliott, have sent the following…. We are a bagpipe reed and chanter manufacturing company based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. We are currently working with a very special customer who has unfortunately suffered a disease called ‘Systemic Sclerosis’ which is an auto-immune disease of the connective tissue. The customer in question is Andrew Shilliday and he is pictured above before his terrible illness. Here is…

Thanks to reader Darren Hart for sending on this picture (above and below) of his medal collection. Darren writes: ‘I’ve being doing some research on Pipe Major JB Robertson the famous Scottish piper. I have his original silver medal [Northern Meeting Former Winners’ MSR for 1937]. I do have a couple of others as well and thought to ask you if you would know of any family he has left…

P/M Dave Hilder has placed the following on this Canadian pipe band’s Facebook page… Today, I am announcing the dissolving of the Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band and indeed the conclusion of the competitive operations of the Triumph Street Pipe Band. Neither of these decisions have come easily or quickly to the leadership of this International operation. As many of you are aware, the cost of running a competitive grade one…

A firm of Edinburgh-based landscape garden designers have asked for the assistance of Piping Press to help publicise this very worthwhile WW1 commemoration project….. We have been commissioned via a successful competition process to design the Scottish Garden for a Peace Garden project located in Arras, France. Our project is titled ‘Piper’s Peace’ and celebrates the pipers and Pipe Majors who played an important role throughout the Great War and beyond. We wondered…

The band has sent this…. Oban Pipe Band is delighted to announce the new leadership appointments of Daniel Johnstone and Alan Irvine with immediate effect.  Daniel is taking the reigns as Pipe Major, whilst Alan will be undertaking the role of Lead Drummer. Daniel, 29, is from Oban and has been piping from a very young age. He was initially taught under the instruction of P/M Ronnie Lawrie, then Angus D…