Category: Results

CLASP Online Winners/ Recognition for Cameron

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CLASP, the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers, runs three ‘live online’ competitions each year, writes Margaret Houlihan. This format was introduced in Covid times, but continues to grow in popularity attracting amateur adult pipers to compete ‘live’ from the comfort of their own home and from anywhere in the world. Once the live video performance is captured, these are emailed to the judges for consideration. This gives the judge a visual…

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History: The Rise of Inveraray Pipe Band, Part 2

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The following is the second instalment from an article in the Pipe Band Magazine of July 2009. Headlined: ‘Seventy Years On and the Bells of Inveraray Herald Town’s New Band’, it charts the resurrection of a band first founded in the 1890s. Now they are the current World Champions and P/M Liddell has four such titles to his name….. The band’s Pipe Major, Stuart Liddell, said, ‘I always had a…

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The Kettlewell Legacy: Inspiring the Next Generation of Pipers

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I have just finished my term as President of the Glasgow Highland Club. One of my last duties was accepting a most generous donation from the family of the late David Kettlewell. David spent a lifetime teaching youngsters the pipes and a stipulation of the gift is that it should be used as a prize for junior piping. By Colin Kerr The spark that ignited David’s lifelong love of piping happened…

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History: The Rise of Inveraray Pipe Band

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The following is from Pipe Band Magazine of July 2009. Headlined: ‘Seventy Years On and the Bells of Inveraray Herald Town’s New Band’, it charts the resurrection of a band first founded in the 1890s….. There can be few bands in the recent past that have burst on to the scene with such an impact as Inveraray & District. Already crowned Scottish Champions 2009, some experts in the field are…

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Army Solo Piping & Drumming Championships

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The 2025 Army Solo Piping and Drumming Championships took place at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming (ASBM&HD), Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh on Friday 5 December 2025. Sponsored by the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the event welcomed 55 competitors across 15 piping, drumming and bugling categories. By WO1 Peter Grant, Senior Pipe Major, the British Army The Championships were once again a great success, even with a few…

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