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Piobaireachd Society Reveals Full Line-up for Conference ’17

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The 2017 Piobaireachd Society Conference will take place on Saturday/Sunday 25/26 March at the Birnam Hotel, Perthshire. Booking arrangements are slightly different this year than in the past. Those staying at the hotel for the weekend should contact reception directly on 01350 728030. Rates are available for two nights bed and breakfast including conference dinner on the Saturday evening. A conference fee of £40 is payable directly to the Piobaireachd Society via their…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Inauguration Pipe Bands/ Crossgare & Mountjoy/ David Murray

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Good to see that pipe bands will be well represented in President – Elect Donald Trump’s Inaugural Parade in Washington DC on January 20. Here are the Pipes & Drums on the list: Coastal Florida Police & Fire Pipes & Drums, Palm Coast, Florida Nassau County Firefighters Pipes & Drums, East Meadow, NY NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, East Moriches, New York The Citadel Regimental Band & Pipes and Summerall Guards, Charleston, South Carolina US…

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Is it Not Time that we Capped the Numbers of Pipers in Pipe Bands?

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Pipe bands seem to have settled on a ‘no more than 25 pipers’ rule in the past couple of seasons. Before that we had showmen P/Ms turning out with nearer 30. Now they realise the difficulties this means for unison and control. There was a time when the optimum size of a pipe band was considered to be 12 pipers, four side drummers, two tenors and a bass. Among the top bands…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Oz Summer School/ Canada on Blackwood/ Malcolm’s Funeral

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P/M Douglas Murray of Fife Police will join his brother James, Ian Lyons and Brett Tidswell as the main piping instructors at the Pipe Bands Australia summer school in Melbourne later this month. Lead Drumming Instructor is Steven McWhirter, the current World Solo Champion, ably supported by Dean Hall and others. Here’s the link. I hear that Douglas has had to pull out of the Wheel of Fortune contest owing…

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Lecture on Robert Reid/ US Blackwood Instrument ‘Passport’

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Perfect for whiling away part of a winter’s evening would be a trawl through the PP Audio Archive. Added today is our copy of the lecture on the life and times of P/M Robert Reid made for BBC radio in the early 1970s by Seumas MacNeill as part of his ‘Masters of Piping’ series. The delivery and musical illustrations are superb, the piping by Reid’s pupil, P/M RG Hardie. Robert Reid…

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