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South West Scotland Boost for Piping & Drumming

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Piping and Drumming in south-west Scotland has received a major boost with the formation of the new South West Scotland Piping & Drumming Academy. The Academy will take the form of a Summer School, a series of teaching workshops and piobaireachd weekends. Andrew McCartney (left), Chairman of the SWSPDA, reports: Our website address is www.swspda.co.uk, and details of our Summer School and programme of events are as follows : SWSPDA Summer School:  13th…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Muirheads Recordings/Roderick Cannon/UK Champs/ FMM Deal

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Three new tracks have been added to our pipe band audio archive today. They are of the famous Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band and were all recorded in Toronto, Canada, in the 1970s. The quality is not the best, but listeners will get a good sense of the expert leadership and teaching of P/M RG Hardie and L/D Robert Turner. If any reader has a recording they would like to…

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Edinburgh Police/Logan the Publisher/Lochaber Gathering/Drumming Column etc

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Our drumming editor Stewart Gardiner, himself a former drummer with the Lothian & Borders Police PB, has weighed in with some of the names of those in the above photograph published earlier. The pic of the City of Edinburgh Police PB under P/M Ian MacLeod. Stewart writes: ‘Re the ECP photo you posted, I think I have a list of just about everyone in it and can look it out…

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Professor Roderick Cannon – Updated with Tributes

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Professor Roderick Cannon, one of piping’s foremost academics, has died after a short illness. He was 77. Professor Cannon was born in England but had a strong Scottish background on his father’s side of the family. He was brought up in Eccles in Lancashire where his grandfather had convinced the local Boys Brigade company to adopt the pipes for their band instead of bugles. Roderick learned pipes from his father…

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New Drumming Column/ Piob Soc. Bk 16/ Stormont Details/ etc

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Today we launch our new Drummer’s Call column for pipe band drummers of all persuasions: tenor, bass and side. The first article is a review of new drumsticks by Steven Creighton of the St Laurence O’Toole band.  The Piobaireachd Society has announced that their latest book in their celebrated series – Book 16 – will be officially launched at Piping Live! in August.  It is scheduled for 12.00 noon on Wednesday…

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