Piping Press

The picture up top will let you see what a huge success last week’s Northern Winter School in Lohheide, Germany, was. It is of the closing concert. Hundreds of locals attended. Admission was free and they made substantial donations to the school. The dates for 2019 have been announced as November 8 -15. Such is its popularity that registrations for the school will open early in the new year. Hornby,…

The Scottish Schools Pipes & Drums Trust have sent this… A schools piping competition which is already the biggest in the world is set to grow further. Organisers of next year’s Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships say they expect over 150 schools from across Scotland to be represented. Event organiser Patrick Gascoigne said the predicted boost is based on the number of school pupils being taught in programmes run by…

A beautiful slow air by the late John D Burgess is published today. ‘Nancy’s Lullaby’ is one of the few tunes John ever composed. John’s widow Sheila has given permission for it to be published on Piping Press. The tune commemorates the passing of Nancy Sutherland the late wife of John’s great friend Col Sutherland, Caithness. Col takes up the story….’I first met John around 1964 in Invergordon when he…

We are grateful to Allan Chatto O.A.M. for the following article. We hope will be of interest to pipe band enthusiasts and students of piping history. Allan writes, ‘As you are probably aware the Glasgow Corporation Transport pipe band was well to the fore in the 1930s winning at Cowal a number of times.  I found this interesting article from Angus MacPhee whose father was a piper in the band…