Category: Piobaireachd

Luss Highland Games Results – Open, CLASP (MSR added), Juniors

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The picturesque Loch Lomondside village was the setting for a full day of amateur and professional piping. The weather was perfect and a good crowd was in attendance. Thirteen amateur pipers, all participant in the Piping Centre’s CLASP league, played their piobaireachd in the morning and their light music in the afternoon. For the professionals it was the reverse. The picture above shows Champion Piper Donald MacPhee with the piobaireachd…

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Forres Games Junior Piping

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Fresh from the success of its final pipe band championship, the Morayshire town today staged its local Highland games with a good entry and good weather. U-14 Piob 1 Kyle Cameron 2 Calum Dunbar U-14 March 1 Kyle Cameron 2 Calum Dunbar 3 Aiden Phimister 4 Calum Robertson U-14 S&R 1 Kyle Cameron 2 Calum Dunbar 3 Calum Robertson [wds id=”2″] U-18 Piob 1 John MacLaren 2 Jamie MacRae 3…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Saturday Round Up/ Piper Request/ Gala Concert Latest/ Bill Writes Foreword

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Luss Games on Loch Lomondside and Thornton Games in Fife are the main solo events tomorrow (Sat., July 7). The committee at Luss have asked us to remind everyone that their games Luss has a piobaireachd and MSR contests for seniors and junior contests too. On Sunday there are games at Harpenden and at Braemar (Juniors). Results as we get them.The early season games seem to have done a bit…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Band Circles/ Cancale/ Northern Meeting, Lochaber, Aboyne

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Difficulties over ‘concert’ formation positioning mentioned in Alistair Aitken’s piece yesterday should be easily overcome after a little trial and error. Bass sections are different in the circle set up so there is nothing new there. Going by the photographs I thought the formations at the Ross Bandstand pretty good and must have been much more comfortable for the judges than what they are used. No walking about, balancing of…

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Donald MacPherson’s Bagpipe: Sad News from Down Under

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Disturbing information has reached me from Australia via a well known piper and acquaintance of mine, writes the Editor. It concerns the late Donald MacPherson’s bagpipe, that glorious instrument which in Donald’s hands made him the most successful competing piper of all time. It was a pipe I had the good fortune to hear many times. We have several fine instruments on the boards today but none that quite captures…

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