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Shotts Junior Championship – Full Results with A Few Comments Added

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One of the busiest junior competitions of the year took place yesterday at Calderhead High School, Shotts, Lanarkshire. Run by the World Championship winning Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, the event attracted over 185 young pipers and drummers. The picture above shows some of the earlier class winners. I spent most of the afternoon at the competition and it was very well organised, even with the large entry, the school an…

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Northern Winter School in Germany Comes to a Successful Conclusion

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So that is the third annual Northern Winter School over and we are now travelling home, writes the Editor. I think it would be fair to say it has been a success and Principal Ronnie Bromhead has already booked his premises for the next few years ahead. The picture above shows students and instructors.Many of the students have expressed a wish to have a weekend refresher course a few months…

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A Report on the Scottish Piping Society of London from 50 Years Ago

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Before the London Championship fades from the memory for another year we thought it apposite to run this article which appeared 50 years ago in the September 1967 edition of the US – based ‘Piping World’ magazine. In reference to the era of the swinging 60s it is headlined ‘London …Swings….Skirls’ (with ‘Swings’ scored out). With the article are a number of photographs of leading Society supporters and competitors. The…

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Craig Munro, Brian Lamont and the Northern Winter School Concert

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Editor Robert Wallace reports: One of the rewarding outcomes of attending piping schools is that you really get to know your fellow instructors well. Last night we had a very successful concert in a nearby hall with more than 100 in the audience. Star turn was Craig Munro whose blistering fingers showed why he holds his place in the front rank at St Laurence O’Toole with such ease. Craig brought…

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PP Ed's Blog: Winter School/ George Sherriff/ Memorial/ BB Exhibition/ London Letter

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The Northern Winter School is now in full swing and is turning out to be quite the thing. Forty one students – all pipers, no drummers yet unfortunately – working hard at an excellent youth hostel facility on the plains of Lower Saxony, Germany. Principal Ronnie Bromhead has allocated me the piobaireachd class and I have eight enthusiastic students. We started on Duncan MacRae of Kintail yesterday and had the…

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