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End of Year Recitals for Piping Students/ Black Watch Tune Search

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Students on the Royal Conservatoire / National Piping Centre Traditional Music degree course take to the stage for their end-of-year recitals on 1st and 2nd June, writes John Mulhearn. These public recitals are a major component of the course assessment and are part of the wider RCS Traditional Music Recital Festival. Commencing on Tuesday 30th May, the festival takes place at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts and is free to attend.  Piping…

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Were Wallacestone Pipe Band the First World Champions 120 Years Ago?

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We have received this intriguing information from expert piping historian and author Jeannie Campbell: ‘In 1903 a contest was held in the Waverley Market, Edinburgh. ‘Thirteen bands took part and the contest was reported in the papers as the World’s First Pipe Band Championship. The winners were Wallacestone and their opening march was Bonnie Anne.’ The band is pictured above with the handsome trophy with all the personnel clearly named….

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William Grant Foundation Leads the Way in Supporting Piping and Pipe Bands

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There can be few companies around that have done more to support piping than William Grant, the independent whisky distillers, writes the Editor. True to the wishes of their founding philanthropist Sandy Grant Gordon, the company continues to pour money into our art, these days through its charity wing, the William Grant Foundation. It states: ‘William Grant & Sons has always taken a long-term view to support its people, its…

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Piping Instructor George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh/ SSPDT Paid Internships Offer

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The school is seeking to recruit a ‘skilled and inspiring’ Piping Instructor to provide piping tuition to pupils from both Primary and Secondary sections of the School.  Part-time 15 hours per week; Permanent, Term-Time Only £12,928 – £14,963 per annum. The notice reads: ‘Individual piping lessons take place during the school day and there are practices for the Pipe Band and smaller groups at times by arrangement both before and…

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The KOSBs, Willie Bryson and a Mysterious Name Change of One of His Tunes

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I am fortunate to have in my possession an army piper’s manuscript book. It is dated August 1941 and it belonged to Corporal W.E. Grieve, 6th Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. It contains many competition tunes well beyond regimental basic requirements. As I was searching for tunes relating to WW2, one four-parted 6/8 march, Crossing the Odon, by the well-known Willie Bryson (pictured), caught my eye immediately. The River…

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