Category: Tuition

New Humidity Controlled Pipe Case/ NZ Pipe Band Entries

Posted on      by      Leave a comment

A new pipe case which the manufacturers say controls the humidity around the instrument has been launched by innovations company Flux and McCallum Bagpipes The ‘FLUX Bagpipe Humidity Case’ comes with the tagline: ‘An Environment for A Stable Bagpipe’.  It is described as: ‘Maintaining a constant humidity for your drones, bag and reeds to achieve a consistently rich sound from your pipes.  ‘Constant humidity will increase the longevity of your instrument,…

More New Humidity Controlled Pipe Case/ NZ Pipe Band Entries

A Few Days in the US for the Balmoral Amateur Piping Championship

Posted on      by      Leave a comment

There is something to be said for travelling to the US via Dublin. There you can clear border control and avoid queues on the other side of the Atlantic. I got stuck in arrivals at Philadelphia last weekend in a crowd of 400 with three unhurried guys in kiosks checking passports. Result: missed connection and an unplanned overnight in Philly courtesy the helpful woman at the British Airways desk. By…

More A Few Days in the US for the Balmoral Amateur Piping Championship

New Sunbelt Contest Results

Posted on      by      Leave a comment

This new invitational competition was held in Orlando, Florida, yesterday, November 12. Promoter Eric Stein reported an audience of 200. There were two events a Piobaireachd and a Medley. Piobaireachd1 Callum Beaumont, Phantom Piper of the Corrieyairick, $1,0002 Angus MacColl, Nameless Cherede Darievea, $7503 Ian K MacDonald, MacLeod of Colbeck’s Lament, $5004 Bruce Gandy, Battle of Waternish, $2505 Stuart Liddell, Unjust Incarceration, $100 Medley1 Glenn Brown, $1,0002 Stuart Liddell, $7503…

More New Sunbelt Contest Results

Balmoral Classic US Amateur Championship Results

Posted on      by      Leave a comment

This competition was held yesterday, November 12, in the Gettysburg Room of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. There were eleven competitors in both Piobairachd and MSR. The overall winner was Paul MacKay who placed second in both events winning for himself a set of engraved McCallum Bagpipes. Pictured above are MSR winner Leland Reid, Balmoral US Amateur Champion Paul MacKay, and Piobaireachd winner Abby…

More Balmoral Classic US Amateur Championship Results

Editor’s Notebook: Balmoral Classic/ Logan Tannock/ Florence Allan/ Jimmy Banks

Posted on      by      Leave a comment

In Pittsburgh, PA, for the annual Balmoral Classic US Amateur Piping Championship. The judges are myself, Amy Garson and Lezlie Webster. The 12 competitors and their tunes: It should be a good competition. Lots of excellent prizes for the winners. I do a free workshop for all competitors on the Sunday. More details here. Pittsburgh is of course the home of Carnegie Mellon University where Jimmy McIntosh established the first…

More Editor’s Notebook: Balmoral Classic/ Logan Tannock/ Florence Allan/ Jimmy Banks