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PP Ed’s Blog: Saturday Round Up/ Piper Request/ Gala Concert Latest/ Bill Writes Foreword

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Luss Games on Loch Lomondside and Thornton Games in Fife are the main solo events tomorrow (Sat., July 7). The committee at Luss have asked us to remind everyone that their games Luss has a piobaireachd and MSR contests for seniors and junior contests too. On Sunday there are games at Harpenden and at Braemar (Juniors). Results as we get them.The early season games seem to have done a bit…

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New Chanter from McCallum Bagpipes

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PP advertiser McCallum Bagpipes have announced the launch of a new pipe chanter:  ‘We have been working on a completely revamped pipe band chanter which we are launching now. It will be called the Ceòl pipe chanter. Ceòl is Gaelic for music, the Ceòl pipe chanter creates music not just sound. It has a completely new internal size, new throat, new reed seat and hole pattern. It’s round holed and very easy…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Band Circles/ Cancale/ Northern Meeting, Lochaber, Aboyne

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Difficulties over ‘concert’ formation positioning mentioned in Alistair Aitken’s piece yesterday should be easily overcome after a little trial and error. Bass sections are different in the circle set up so there is nothing new there. Going by the photographs I thought the formations at the Ross Bandstand pretty good and must have been much more comfortable for the judges than what they are used. No walking about, balancing of…

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Reflections on the Pipe Band Competition Season So Far – Part 2

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Pipe band authority Alistair Aitken concludes his look at the season so far…. The final event I would like to mention in particular is the local competition held in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh on Sunday 24 June.  It is pleasing to see that this Lothian & Borders Branch competition (now in its second year) has been resurrected in Scotland’s capital city, as Princes Street Gardens for many years during…

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Donald MacPherson’s Bagpipe: Sad News from Down Under

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Disturbing information has reached me from Australia via a well known piper and acquaintance of mine, writes the Editor. It concerns the late Donald MacPherson’s bagpipe, that glorious instrument which in Donald’s hands made him the most successful competing piper of all time. It was a pipe I had the good fortune to hear many times. We have several fine instruments on the boards today but none that quite captures…

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