Category: Pipe Bands

Piping Tutors/ Pipe Majors Wanted for South Ayrshire and Craigmount

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South Ayrshire Council are looking for a part-time teacher of piping. Pay scale is £14,925.60 to £19,841.40 per year for 21 hours working at various schools in the region per week.The blurb reads: ‘What is the role? You will provide a quality music instruction service in various schools within South Ayrshire including primary and secondary.   ‘Extra information: The Grade of this post is Music Instructor scale. This post is considered to be…

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It is Time to Follow the Example of Pipe Bands in Encouraging Our Judges to Teach

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Twelve years ago Pipe Band Magazine reported on an important ruling adopted by the then RSPBA Adjudicators Panel. Headlined ‘Rule Change at AGM Means Judges are Free to Pass on Their Knowledge’ it basically cleared the way for judges judging bands they taught or assisted with. Lordy, lordy pipe bands showing the way for our solo administrators! Compare that with the retrograde rulings from the Solo Piping Judges Association of recent…

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PP Ed’s Blog: CITES, Boghall, David Murray, Jimmy Anderson

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Bagpipe manufacturers looking to explore the CITES regulations and how they affect blackwood trade with Australia should click here. Be prepared for a difficult trawl through. A meeting was held in Bristol last week between the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA), the body that polices CITES in the UK, and the Society of Instrument Manufacturers. I am awaiting info from the meeting, but the latest I have heard is…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Celtic Conns/Red Hackle/ Virginia

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The Celtic Connections festival kicks off next weekend in Glasgow and looking through the programme I could find dashed little of piping interest. The highlight will be the concert by Inveraray & District and Breton band Bagad Kemper at 12.30pm on Jan 28 (tickets  £15). There is also a concert on Feb 3 featuring ‘Breabach’ a folk group that uses pipes but outside of that very little of the piob mhor…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Inauguration Pipe Bands/ Crossgare & Mountjoy/ David Murray

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Good to see that pipe bands will be well represented in President – Elect Donald Trump’s Inaugural Parade in Washington DC on January 20. Here are the Pipes & Drums on the list: Coastal Florida Police & Fire Pipes & Drums, Palm Coast, Florida Nassau County Firefighters Pipes & Drums, East Meadow, NY NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, East Moriches, New York The Citadel Regimental Band & Pipes and Summerall Guards, Charleston, South Carolina US…

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