Pipes for Sale/ Balmoral Classic/ New Letters

Set of silver and imitation ivory Strathmore pipes (drone ring caps above) are offered for sale today. Click here for more.  • Something to sell? Pipes, chanters, uniforms? Searching for that old copy of a magazine or a fancy dirk? Well, the place to fulfil your every piping or drumming wish is here at PP Online Ads. For only £25 (£20 non-tax) you can place an advertisement in the web magazine that…

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CLASP Results from Chatsworth 2018

Organiser Margaret Dunn reports: Please find attached the CLASP results from Chatsworth Country Fair held on Saturday 1st September, 2018. Attached also is a group picture of some CLASP competitors (above), and the overall winners. All overall winners received a National Piping Centre Seasonal School voucher and prize winners received NPC shop vouchers. Overall CLASP Winner Grade 1 – David MacKenzie Overall CLASP Winner Grade 2 – Duncan Lamont Overall CLASP…

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A Quick Look Back Over the Summer

Looking back over the summer I think it would be fair to say that it has provided a thoroughly enjoyable few months of piping and pipe band music, writes the Editor. All the band contests seemed to go off well, certainly the majors did. My only grumble, as you will have read earlier, is that it all finishes a few weeks too early. It will be worse next year with…

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Scottish Pipers’ Association Juvenile Results

This competition was held in the National Piping Centre, Otago Street, Glasgow, on Saturday September 8. Pictured above are the ‘A’ Grade winners. Chanter – Slow Air 1 Euan McCartan 2 Joanne Will 3 Ruairidh Allison Chanter – March 1 Ruairidh Allison 2 Euan McCartan 3 Owen McCreadie ‘B’ Piob 1 Euan Lindsay ‘B’ March 1 Andrew Sneddon 2 Euan Lindsay 3 Christopher McCartan 4 Sandy Wedderburn ‘B’ S&R 1…

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A Chaotic Day at Perth Highland Games Piping Competitions

I have been to a good number of poorly organised Highland games piping competitions in the past, however the experience at Perth this year was nothing short of shambolic. Unfortunately, due to the dreadful weather, there were a large number of call-offs which turned the event into a free-for-all from the outset. While the order in the Piobaireachd events (particularly the B Grade) had slightly more structure, the light music…

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