This article, by BBC radio producer Hugh MacPhee, first appeared in the Radio Times, the BBC’s listings magazine, on November 9, 1956. Mr MacPhee was involved in all aspects of Scottish culture in the early days of the BBC in Scotland, variously head of Gaelic broadcasting, a keen supporter of the National Mod and of shinty. His piece ends with a note that ‘You can hear the music of the…
The following piece by the editor was first published in Piping Times magazine in 2003, but its recognition of the debt of gratitude owed by piping to Mr Grant Gordon, who died last week aged 89, is as relevant today as it was then….. By Robert Wallace In the long annals of our history there are many men who through their efforts as players, composers, teachers or writers have fanned…
Lots of responses to recent articles on PP and I’ll try to tidy some of them up today. On World War 1 hero, Pipe Major David Anderson and the penguin piper picture, reader Ron Abbott writes: The piper in the photo in the Antarctic with the penguin is Gilbert Mitchell Kerr, born at Glencorse in 1870. During the 1890s/early 1900s, Gilbert Kerr was a Volunteer/Piper of the Queens Edinburgh Rifles…
I was shocked and deeply saddened on hearing of the passing of my teacher and great friend. Since hearing the news I have reflected on all the times I spent with Iain Murdo – and there are so many great memories. Despite his immense talent, he was a very modest man who devoted his life to helping and guiding others in furtherance of bagpipe music. I thought I would share…
This article is based on a display in the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh. Thanks to reader David Waterton-Anderson for bringing it to our attention and to the club for their memorial to another WW1 piping hero who would otherwise be forgotten……. Serving police constable David Anderson, a piper from Dalgety Street, Edinburgh, answered the call of duty when, on the outbreak of WW1, he signed up with the 15th…
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