Category: Solo Piping

Editor’s Notebook: Pipe Dreams/ Thomason’s Sword/ Pipes in Early North America/ MacCrimmon Cairn/ Kilberry Middle Music

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They may not have been the first with the synthetic drone reed, but who would deny Ronnie MacShannon and Tommy Johnston their place as innovators who, through their company Pipe Dreams, changed the quality of bagpipe sound? Their Eezidrone reeds established a bench mark against which others were tested. Their sound was as close to cane as you can get without all the hassle. And every set of reeds met…

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Lochaber Gathering Entries Open/ Lochearnhead and Other Games Details

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In preparation for this year’s Lochaber Gathering on Friday 23rd August (the day after Games Day at the Argyllshire Gathering), we have opened the Senior Entries and will hold them open until noon on 15th July, writes Ken Cameron, Chairman of Lochaber Piping Society. We are very restricted in numbers due to the nature of the venue, the excellent Highland Cinema in Fort William, so any sections which are over-subscribed will be…

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Ceres Games Results and Comment

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A snell wind greeted us as we arrived in the Howe of Fife for the annual Ceres Highland Games, purportedly the oldest in Scotland, dating from 1314, and a year my rabid nationalist pal tells me coincides with some minor altercation at Bannockburn. By Robert Wallace It’s just over a year since the old grappler and piper Willie Baxter left us and there he was on the front of the…

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Inveraray Games Piping Draws/ Ceres Games/ CPA Bronze Medal/ Aberfeldy Games

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Brian Spalding, the Piping Convenor, has published the draws for Inveraray Games to be held on July 16 in the Argyllshire village. P/A Piobaireachd playing order: E Ianetta-MacKay, C May, J Elder, A Henderson, C Watson, A MacColl, G Canning, S Leask, C Armstrong, D Urquhart, A MacPhee, S Muir, C Beaumont, S Cameron, B Duncan, J Mulhearn, C Sinclair, N Smith. P/A March and S&R: C Muirhead, B Watson-Massey,…

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Can Anyone Help Me Find Out More About My Father?

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Reader Alison Willasey-Wilsey has written, ‘I wonder if Piping Press readers can assist me in finding out more information about my father now deceased.  ‘He said that he joined the Aberdeen and Dundee Pipe Band of the Royal Engineers in 1937. ‘He was subsequently called up to the Royal Engineers when war broke out in 1939. I know he was in a pipe band as a young boy in Aberdeen…

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