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Cowal Gathering and the Need to Recognise Our Champion of Champions Winners

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A few weeks ago we asked the question ‘Do we need to rethink the Champion of Champions Awards’? It was borne of a notion that these awards, when announced at the Worlds, get lost amid all the other excitement and celebration, writes the Editor. Our view is that the Champion of Champions titles should not be sniffed at. As we pointed out, to come top of the league says a…

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New Vale Leading Tip and new Corps Announced

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The Grade 1 Vale of Atholl Pipe Band have appointed Northern Ireland’s Adrian Hoy as their new leading drummer. Adrian’s appointment is a huge boost for the Perthshire band and was announced as they prepared to play at the last competition of the year at their local Pitlochry Highland Games. Earlier this week the band announced the departure of Lee Lawson as leading tip: ‘Lee took a sabbatical from the band…

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Reflections on the Argyllshire Gathering 2016 – Silver & Gold Medals

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I judged the Oban Silver Medal with Ian Duncan and Malcolm McRae. I remind readers of the statement top left on this page. The standard has been better. I don’t know if it was the tuning facility in the rather dank Ceilidh House, but too many pipers just didn’t have settled instruments on which to demonstrate their prowess. As stated earlier, the winner was Nick Hudson, Pittsburgh, USA. His tune…

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Vale Drummers/ CLASP Results/Boghall Recruitment

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Fiona MacKay: ‘The Vale of Atholl Grade 1 Pipe Band has announced the departure of Leading Drummer Lee Lawson.  Lee took a sabbatical from the band mid-season for personal reasons and unfortunately will not be able to continue with the Grade 1 band as we set our sights on preparing for the 2017 season. We would like to thank Lee for her contribution and the band will shortly provide a…

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Bagpipe Lung: The Definitive Report

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There was much brouhaha in the national press a couple of weeks ago about the dangers to pipers from fungal spores and bacteria in their instruments. Today we publish the actual scientific findings on which these reports – some of them misleading – were based. Although the article contains a lot of medical terminology (as one would expect), we believe it is worth a proper read so that pipers fully understand, as best…

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