Category: Tuition

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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Pipe Major’s Wheel of Fortune Results

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Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh was the winner of the popular Pipe Major’s Wheel of Fortune competition, which was held at Danderhall Miners’ Club in Midlothian on Saturday 29 April 2023. The event, which is hosted by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band, requires pipers to play a medley of tunes which is determined by spinning the golden chanter on the Wheel of Fortune.   The Wheel features 12 tune categories…

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Highlands & Islands Festival 2023 Piping Full Results

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Another successful competition was held in the Oban High School today, Saturday, April 29, with healthy entries in most competitions. Sponsors included the Piobaireachd Society and the Competing Pipers’ Association. P/A Ceol Mor for Cooper Salver (1st) and Dugald MacColl Memorial Trophy (2nd).1 Roderick MacLeod, Old Men of the Shells2 Steven Leask, MacNeil of Barra’s March 3 Darach Urquhart, I Got a Kiss of the King’s Hand4 William Geddes, Lament…

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Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting Pipers and Judges

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The two leading solo piping competitions in the world, the Argyllshire Gathering, Oban, and the Northern Meeting, Inverness, will be held on August 23/24, and August 31/ Sept 1 respectively. Places for competitors are limited to under 30 and are allocated on a track record basis by a joint committee of promoters, competing pipers’ representatives and judges’ representatives. Competitors for the senior events are not listed. The Senior Piobaireachd and…

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