Welcome back everyone and a Happy New Year. Scotland still sleeps/celebrates but we appreciate the rest of the world is back out there earning a living and requires the daily PP fix to relieve the ennui… A good call in our comments section regarding HLI tunes and Robert Reid’s book ‘The Piper’s Delight’. It is a smashing wee publication but is probably out of print, though I notice a copy…
First excerpt we had some catch up headlines from Grade 2 but now a few further observations and plaudits for the wider pipe band world from the man they call MacStig…. In drumming, the British Drum Co, originally founded by some ex Premier experts and others, wisely signed Jim Kilpatrick as a man to assist their embryonic marching drums division. Jim was quickly followed by some younger turks of note…
Two notable pipe band devotees have been honoured in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. John Kelly reports: Mervyn Herron (above) from Northern Ireland said he is ‘over the moon’ after being awarded an MBE for services to the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) Northern Ireland. The 67-year-old first joined the ranks back in the early 1980s and devoted over 30 years to the organisation before his retirement…
Some say that winter is just too long without this guy. Well, ever responsive to the needs of our readers we tracked him down to one of the shiftier hang outs on the Spanish Main. We found him sipping – well you don’t really don’t want to know (whatever he says below), and there he sat in the tartan budgie smugglers (photo on application). And you will be pleased to…
We are grateful for these two comprehensive responses to the request for tunes associated with the Highland Light Infantry regiment of the British Army. They followed a request for assistance from Andrew Reid the piper for the regiment’s veterans association. The picture above shows the regiment pipe band parading in Cairo, Egypt, in 1946. Reader David Livingstone: For what it’s worth, my 1932 potted history of line regiments lists HLI…
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