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A Few Days on Mull of the Cool High Bens

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Time stood still this week on the island of Mull. The sun shone on calm water and soaring summit. But the idyll belied an inner tension. The ‘tier zero’ island is confronting an influx of bug carriers, or so it thinks. It means restrictions more stringent than in covid city, Glasgow. By Robert Wallace It will be a time before we learn to live with this but we need to…

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Lochaber Gathering Entry Form Available Tomorrow/ Carnegie Mellon Drum Tutor

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Ken Cameron, Chairman of Lochaber Piping Society, has posted this: ‘Well, OK, the Argyllshire Gathering, Glen Urquhart Games and the Northern Meeting have been falling by the wayside around us, but we see every reason to hold the Lochaber Gathering as planned. What’s not to like? A LIVE event; spectacular prizes, terrific venue at the Highland Cinema in the centre of Fort William – AND generous prize money to be…

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RSPBA History: ‘Farcical’ and ‘Tragic’ Judging in the Post War Pipe Band World

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We conclude our look back at the history of the RSPBA as described in an edition of the Piping, Drumming and Highland Dancing Journal of 1949. The author, Mr RC Whitelaw, Secretary of the then Scottish Pipe Band Association, turns his forensic eye on the establishment of a pipe band college and problems with judging as he saw it. Pictured are Bowhill Colliery Pipe Band, Fife, winners of the first…

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RSPBA Announce Online Summer School/ New Teaching Deal From Balmoral/ Composing Project Deadline

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The Association is happy to announce the launch of its Annual Summer School for 2021, writes John Nevans. The School opens on Monday 2nd of August 2021 and closes on Thursday 5th of August 2021 and will be an online event open to all of our Association members.  Broadly, the school is aimed at: pipers, snare drummers and bass and tenor drummers. The school’s focus is on the individual, the…

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RSPBA History: The Hallmark of a Solo Piper is Piobaireachd, But What Use Does it Serve Pipe Bands?

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We continue with our look back at the history of the RSPBA as described in an edition of the Piping, Drumming and Highland Dancing Journal of 1949. The author, Mr RC Whitelaw, Secretary of the then Scottish Pipe Band Association, demonstrates the misguided thinking which set the Association’s attitude to classical pipe music for 40 years, an attitude only overcome relatively recently. As ever, Mr Whitelaw is refreshingly outspoken, and…

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