Category: Pipe Bands

PP Editor’s Blog: PP Advertising/ Worlds Tickets/ FM Concert/ Johnstone PB/ Lochaber Gath./ Donald Bain

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Firstly a message to those commercial enterprises that keep posting their goods on our Facebook page. I’m afraid you cannot get a free ride gents. Advertise with Piping Press and post all you like on our Facebook pages.  Producing Piping Press  costs – but is totally free to readers thanks to the generosity of our current advertisers. It is wrong that they should be expected to subsidise your enterprises too….

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Virginia Tattoo Results

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Inveraray & District Pipe Band, P/M Stuart Liddell, were the champion band at this new contest held yesterday. Fife Police were runners-up and also won a $1000 drum fanfare prize. Grade 2 went to New York Metro. The competition was staged as part of the Virginia International Tattoo 2016, April 21 -24, and held at Scope Plaza, Norfolk. Grade One: American Champions 2016 First Place winning the J. Scott Jackson Trophy…

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PP Editor’s Blog: New Piob Recording from Donald MacPherson/ Pipe Band Formations/ Oz Results/ MacGregor Entries

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A treat for all piobaireachd lovers today. Posted on the PP Audio archive is maestro Donald MacPherson playing that beautiful tune, Lady MacDonald’s Lament. It is Donald’s winning performance from the 1977 Clan Donald competition held aboard a ship, the SS Calypso, moored off Sleat, Isle of Skye. Donald’s superb technique, extraordinarily resonant and steady pipe and masterful phrasing are all in evidence. Lady MacDonald is a wonderful piece of…

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How We Won the Worlds – Interview Part 3 by P/M Robert Mathieson

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In this concluding part of the interview given after his band, Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, had triumphed in the 2000 World Pipe Band Championships, the popular pipe major talks us through the actual day of victory. Read the first part of this revealing and informative interview, first published in Pipe Band Magazine, here. ‘I think this year our MSR was better than when we won in 1997, and though people might think…

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How We Won the Worlds – Part 2 of P/M Robert Mathieson’s Interview

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Now a respected member of the RSPBA’s Adjudicators’ Panel, P/M Robert Mathieson won no less than five World Grade 1 Pipe Band Championships in his highly successful career at the helm of Shotts & Dykehead. Here we run the second part of the interview he gave to Pipe Band Magazine after winning his third in 2000. It will be of great interest to everyone aspiring to similar success. Robert is pictured…

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