Category: Tuition

Piobaireachd Society Reveals Full Line-up for Conference ’17

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The 2017 Piobaireachd Society Conference will take place on Saturday/Sunday 25/26 March at the Birnam Hotel, Perthshire. Booking arrangements are slightly different this year than in the past. Those staying at the hotel for the weekend should contact reception directly on 01350 728030. Rates are available for two nights bed and breakfast including conference dinner on the Saturday evening. A conference fee of £40 is payable directly to the Piobaireachd Society via their…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Oz Summer School/ Canada on Blackwood/ Malcolm’s Funeral

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P/M Douglas Murray of Fife Police will join his brother James, Ian Lyons and Brett Tidswell as the main piping instructors at the Pipe Bands Australia summer school in Melbourne later this month. Lead Drumming Instructor is Steven McWhirter, the current World Solo Champion, ably supported by Dean Hall and others. Here’s the link. I hear that Douglas has had to pull out of the Wheel of Fortune contest owing…

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Lecture on Robert Reid/ US Blackwood Instrument ‘Passport’

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Perfect for whiling away part of a winter’s evening would be a trawl through the PP Audio Archive. Added today is our copy of the lecture on the life and times of P/M Robert Reid made for BBC radio in the early 1970s by Seumas MacNeill as part of his ‘Masters of Piping’ series. The delivery and musical illustrations are superb, the piping by Reid’s pupil, P/M RG Hardie. Robert Reid…

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PP Ed’s Blog: SWSPDA/ Letters/ SPA Entry Forms/ SPA and Judges

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Thanks to Andy McCartney for his kind comments the other day and also for the latest information on the activities of the South West Scotland Piping and Drumming Academy: Weekend workshop – Abernethy Trust, Ringford, near Kirkcudbright from Friday evening 17th February until around tea time on Sunday 19th. Pupils stay over for the two nights, but day pupils will also be very welcome, and this workshop is for both pipers…

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PP Editor’s New Year Blog: the Official Honours List for 2016/ Wheel of Fortune/ South Florida

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All the best for 2017 to all our readers and advertisers and thank you for making the past year such a success for Piping Press. We are now approaching our one millionth view since we started in September 2014: 993,651 to be exact, as of today. I believe it has been an outstanding year for piping and for pipe bands and it has been our pleasure to record and report…

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