Category: Solo Piping

Balmoral Winter Workshop Announced/ Drumming Post at Highlands & Islands Schools

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Balmoral’s upcoming Winter Workshop will be a three-day remote-learning session held via Zoom, writes Elaine Lee. The cost is $275 USD. Students who refer new students to us will receive $50 off the price of the workshop for every new student referred. Instruction will be provided in small classes, as well as one-to-one sessions with instructors. Our exciting line up includes Robert Mathieson, Derek Midgley, and Andrew Carlisle Robert, from…

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South African Brothers to Publish ‘Binneas is Boreraig’ Using Conventional Stave

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Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mòr, often thought of as the classical music of the Scots Highland Bagpipe, was for centuries passed from master to pupil by chanting the tunes to one another, writes Pat Terry. From about the year 1800, attempts were made to find suitable variations on conventional staff notation to record the music for posterity. One of the more highly regarded of these attempts was published in the 1960s…

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My Father, P/M Robert Reid – Part 7

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We continue with our correspondence from Robert Reid jnr. to Jimmy McIntosh. This abridged letter is dated 3rd November, 1993. There are mentions for John MacDonald, Inverness, Seton Gordon, Seumas MacNeill, Tommy Pearston and Willie Connell …. The photo you refer to [above] would be on MacLeod’s yacht, with Angus Macpherson and James Barke the Burns novelist [sic] in the background. It was taken in 1932 when my father played…

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Editor’s Notebook: Army School and The Queen/ SLOT Headgear/ Terry’s Address/ Drum Request/ Wellington’s Piper

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It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II stepped in to stave off any threat to the Army School of Piping in Edinburgh. Her initiative came to light this week in a podcast interview with former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. He revealed that during an audience, Her Majesty challenged him on rumours of financial cuts at the school. Osborne feigned…

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Complete London Championship Results

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This contest was held in the Caledonian Club, Belgravia, on November 3/4. Bratach Gorm1 Roderick MacLeod, Old Men of the Shells 2 Finlay Johnston, Lament for the Earl of Antrim3 Angus D MacColl, Nameless, Cherede Darievea4 Callum Beaumont, Lament for MacLeod of Colbeck5 Bruce Gandy, Lachlan MacNeill Campbell Kintarbert’s Fancy  Open Piobaireachd for the William Gillies Cup (6 tunes)1 Finlay Johnston2 Nick Hudson3 Glenn Brown4 Bruce Gandy5 Andrew Donlon MSR:…

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