Piping Press

Margaret Dunn reports: Results from today’s CLASP competition held at the Army School of Piping and Highland Drumming at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh, courtesy Major Gordon Rowan, Director. A good turn out and events were judged by P/M Ben Duncan and P/M Ross McCrindle. Grade 3 Piobaireachd Ground 1st Dorothy Moodie2nd Stephen McCusker3rd Hector Thomson Full Piobaireachd Grade 3 1st Joe Moore2nd Dorothy Moodie3rd Hector Thomson 2/4 March Grade 31st Garry Murphy2nd Jeremy…

Last year the RSPBA Adjudicator’s Panel asked Anne Crookston, a senior member of the brass band judging community, to conduct a survey of pipe band major championships and commissioned a report of her findings. A copy of the report has been obtained by Piping Press and we print the first excerpt today. ADJUDICATION – WHAT’S THE POINT? Before we even discuss any questions regarding adjudication it is important to ask…

By Robert Wallace The dust may have settled following the shock Grade 2 result at the British Pipe Band Championship but the problem has not gone away. You will remember the summary sheets last month showed wide discrepancies in the opinions of the piping adjudicators. Some were as much as ten placings and more apart. We can dismiss the anonymous verbiage on social media decrying the RSPBA ship and all…

The promoters of the Lochaber Gathering have announced a date change for 2019. The date has been moved to August 24 to better accommodate overseas pipers who will be in Scotland for the contests at Oban and Inverness . The venue will be as before at the Nevis Centre, Fort William, and there will be the usual wide range of events for all grades: P/A Piobaireachd for the Gold Lochaber…

A rare recording of one of the great pipers and composers, GS McLennan, has been published by his family on their website. The recording, though of poor quality, is of historical interest and has the young prodigy, pictured below, playing the reel, De’il Amang the Tailors. Listen to it here. I read on the website that there are other recordings of GS in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh….