Category: Piobaireachd

History: Peter Henderson, the Iconic Bagpipe Maker

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The following is taken from a 1930s catalogue of the famous Glasgow firm of pipe makers…… To our customers we offer this our latest catalogue, hoping that the confidence and goodwill which has for so long existed may continue in the future. To prospective customers we hope this catalogue will prove of value to them and lead to business associations that will be to our mutual advantage. To old friends…

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Be a Better Piper: Learning Canntaireachd, the Piper’s Language

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The non piobaireachd player may be wondering what this ‘canntaireachd’ (pronounced approximately ‘can-cher-ach’) is. No mystery, no big deal. It’s just mouth music, a sort of formulated diddling common in folk traditions the world over. In Scotland, when we had a sense of humour, it has been characterised in the music hall as ‘heedrum-hawdrum’, or, when inverted for comic effect by the Glasgwow folksinger Matt McGinn, ‘you haw der um…

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Editor’s Notebook: Pipe Band Season/ Solo Season/ NZ Contest/ Stonehaven Disband/ Scots Wha Hae

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Cheering news from the Chairman yesterday and I hope bands respond similarly by supporting the 2022 majors and, in particular, the minor contests. Use them or lose them. The concession Mr Reilly talked about, the lessening of strictures, will, I hear rumours, centre round own choice in Grade 1 and 2. Bands will still have to submit the required number of MSRs and Medleys but at the line they will…

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Rolling Back the Years – The Geoff Hore Legacy

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Readers may recall that here in New Zealand we’ve been working on the ‘Geoff Hore Legacy’ by amassing his rather large collection of articles he wrote for the NZ ‘Pipeband’ magazine. The works have now been digitised and are available on the NZ Piping Centre website. The work is primarily of local NZ interest but the inclusion of the histories of Logans and Pattersons publishers will be of more universal…

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Aboyne Highland Games Set For August Return

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After an absence of three years, organisers have confirmed that Aboyne Highland Games will be held this August, writes Ian McLaren. The traditional Royal Deeside event, which attracts up to 10,000 visitors, will take place on Saturday, 6 August.  It will mark the first time since 2019 that the games has been staged, after being cancelled for the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Aboyne Green will come to…

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