Category: Pipe Bands

Editor’s Notebook: Boghall/ Regradings/ MacDougall Pipes/ Band Quartets/ British Legion 1970

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There are a couple of things that need to be said following the Boggies big win last weekend. This very much a community band with a loyal membership that has stuck with it over the decades irrespective of success or lack of it. This loyalty was much more common when I played in bands than it is today with butterfly bagpipers flitting around hither and thither before landing on another…

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The Tunes Bands Had to Play at Cowal’s World Championship in 1932

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A few weeks ago I said I would take a closer a look at the small book of tunes to be played by bands competing for the World Championship held at Cowal Highland Gathering in 1932, writes the Editor. The book, published by the Cowal Committee, cost 6d, about 3p today, and has the title ‘Selection of Marches, Strathspeys and Reels to be played by competitors in the World’s Championship…

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The Day Boghall & Bathgate Became Number 1

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The first major pipe band championship of the season was held on June 10 at Lurgan, Northern Ireland. The UK Champions Grade 1 title was secured to the surprise and delight of many by Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, so many years the nearly men and women of the pipe band world. Here their jubilant pipe major Ross Harvey shares his thoughts on a breakthrough occasion…. Saturday was a…

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UK Pipe Band Championships – Boghall Triumph

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Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia are the new UK Pipe Band Champions winning today at Lurgan Park, Northern Ireland in perfect weather conditions. Their win in the first major of the season came on the day they announced a two year extension to their sponsorship deal with car firm Peoples Ford. It is a major breakthrough for P/M Ross Harvey and new L/D Kerr McQuillan. Two medleys were required in G1….

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Editor’s Notebook: PS Summer School/ Larkhall Boost/ John Cruickshank VC/ Learning the Basics

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The Piobaireachd Society Summer School has come to a close after a blazing week on the isle of Skye. Even if the weather had not been kind it would have been a rewarding experience. The venue was the Gaelic college at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Sleat, an ideal facility, with an extensive library and plenty of teaching space and an excellent refectory. More than anything, SMO has staff who are…

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