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Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Results

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Thirteen played in the adult competitions. Eight played in the various junior competitions. The weather was cool and remained dry. The competition boards were rather close to each other and this caused the bagpipe sound to be slightly adversely affected, but nevertheless the playing generally was very good. Of course it is always a danger at games venues that there will be extraneous sounds. It is to the credit of the…

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Dollar Pipe Band Results

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G1: 1 Inveraray 2 Fife Police 3 Boghall; Drumming: BoghallG2: Buchan Peterson 2 Dollar Acad. 3 Portlethen; Drumming B PetersonG3: 1 Macanta 2 MacKenzie Cal. 3 Coalburn IOR; Drumming: Pitlochry & B AthollJuv.: 1 Dollar Acad. 2 Dollar N. Juv 3 Stirling Schools; Drumming: DollarG4a: 1 Burntisland 2 Kirkacldy 3 Camelon; Drumming: BurntislandG4b: 1 Fraserburgh RBL 2 Barrhead 3 City if Discovery; Drumming: FraserburghN Juv A: 1 Dollar Acad. 2…

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1st Port Trophy/ Piping Live/ Results from Ireland

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The successful dinner and piping recital held in 2022 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1st Port Glasgow BB pipe band winning the 1972 World Juvenile championship raised a significant amount of money, writes Donald McRae. This has now been distributed. The two remaining Boys’ Brigade companies in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, each received £150 to further their good work, and the remaining sum was used to purchase a trophy…

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Full Weekend Pipe Band Results from Gourock, Dunbar and Banchory

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Congratulations to all bands who supported last weekend’s pipe band contests at Banchory, Dunbar and Gourock. Inveraray won in Grade 1 at Gourock (May 14) with Boghall second and first in drumming. P/M Ross Harvey and L/D Kerr McQuillan of Boghall are pictured above. Gourock G1: 1 Inveraray 2 Boghall 3 Shotts 4 Police Scotland; Drumming: BoghallG2: 1 Uddingston 2 Oban 3 Lower Clyde 4 Turriff; Drumming: UddingstonG3: 1 Milngavie…

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Editor’s Notebook: Willie Ross and Robert Reid/ Book Plea/ Gordon’s Tune/ Clan MacRae and Glasgow Skye

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I am sure P/M Willie Ross did seminal service to piping when he streamlined the playing and writing of our ceòl beag technique. Gone were the doublings on C with the two D gracenotes, the open style of taorluath writing, the heavy D throw, the gracenoted birl. His six books also provided a catalogue of standard settings of many of the classic competition tunes in versions that everyone agreed were…

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