Principal of the Northern Winter School in Lohheide, P/M Ronnie Bromhead, has written to the Editor about the origins and ethos of his successful enterprise. The school runs from November 10 -17…. ‘I thought it was about time something happened in the north of Germany and I had played with the idea for quite some time. I asked Craig Munro of Wallace Bagpipes and Jim Semple [RSPBA Adjudicator and ex-Strathclyde Police…
P/M Ross McCrindle of the Scots Guards and Senior Pipe Major in the British Army has sent this about Saturday’s important professional piping contest at the Army School in Edinburgh: ‘The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming will again be hosting the Captain John A MacLellan Piping Championships on Saturday the 7thof October. Held at Inchdrewer House within Redford Barracks, this event features some of the best solo pipers in…
‘It is clear that local councils’ investment in providing tuition to young people in Scotland’s national instrument is creating a generation of fantastic pipers able to perform and compete to an extremely high standard,’ said Dr Decker Forest, judging the Iain Dall Young Pipers Festival at Gairloch on Saturday 23rd September. ‘This year’s competition featured excellent performances from some of the country’s best young pipers as well as local entrants,…
The Piping Press Shop now has a full set of recordings of tunes set by the by the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (PS) for the 2018 Silver Medal competitions at Oban and Inverness. They are played in full on the practice chanter by Piping Press editor Robert Wallace more or less as published by the Society but with some differences as handed down in oral tradition. These differences are…
A last look at the piping at the 2017 Northern Meeting today. Before that a word about Oban and its dress code. Pipers at the Argyllshire Gathering are permitted to play without jackets. The rooms get hot at times and the laudable aim of the organisers is to make the competitors as comfortable as possible in the pressure cooker atmosphere of the small theatre at the Corran Halls and in…
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