Category: Pipe Bands

Preview: ‘Jimmy, Memoirs of My Life as A Piper’ by Jimmy McIntosh MBE

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                                             The much anticipated memoir of one of piping’s greats is published just in time for Christmas. ‘Jimmy, Memoirs of My Life as A Piper’ by James H. McIntosh MBE, tells the story of a long life completely dedicated to the service of piping both in Scotland and the…

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Online Premier of Acclaimed Pipe Band Film to Go Ahead Next Weekend

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I released a DVD some years ago (title above) about some beginner bagpipe players from around Europe coming together to enter the World Pipe Band Championship. It’s a great tale and the film received some acclaim at the time. I’ve now decided to make it available to everyone online. Following the maxim that ‘the best way of learning is doing’, piping tutor P/M Barry Donaldson enters a band of beginners…

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Promotion: New Chanter from Ayrshire Bagpipes

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I am launching my new chanter, the Siorrachd, today, writes Ayrshire Bagpipes proprietor Ben Mulhearn. Ayrshire Bagpipes are proud to bring the new ‘Siorrachd’ (pronounced ‘she-or-achd’) solo piping chanter to the market. (Siorrachd is the Gaelic word for county. Siorrachd Inbhir Air a Tuath is an alternative name for North Ayrshire.) This new chanter distils knowledge accumulated over 20 years of research and development at our small family-run workshop in…

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My Reflections on the Pittsburgh Memorial Service for Jimmy McIntosh MBE

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On Saturday November 27th, 2021, family and friends gathered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the life of Jimmy McIntosh.  This was the second memorial for Jimmy, the first being in Anderson, South Carolina, two weeks before.  I was so glad to be able to attend both.  I have found that I needed both occasions, along with a lot of processing time, to put into perspective Jimmy’s impact on my life…

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Editor’s Notebook: ‘Follow Me, I’m Right Behind You’/ Captain John’s Tune/ Ellon Pipe Band/ Alwyne Farquharson

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Fascinating insight this week into the making of ‘The Glorious Effect’. By co-incidence I have been in touch with Andy Glen the maker of another bagpipe film. Andy was the man begind the hilarious ‘Follow Me I’m Right Behind You’ about the College of Piping beginners’ pipe band of 2010. Andy is now living in Ayrshire and tells me he plans to hoist the film onto YouTube in the not…

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