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My Shock and Surprise at the Loss of a Pipe Band Championship This Summer

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As regards the news that there will be no British Pipe Band Championship this year, I am a little surprised at the lack of comment from others so far. Maybe everyone is as shocked and stunned as I was at the RSPBA announcement.  I felt that their terse statement last week, with no detail about what avenues had been explored and no meaningful apology, was a disgrace to the many…

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Official: British Pipe Band Championships Scrapped for 2023

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The RSPBA has failed in its attempt to spread the British Pipe Band Championship over minor contests. It will not now go ahead on its scheduled of date May 20 nor at various dates during the 2023 season. It means that the roster of Major Championships for this year is reduced to four. In a statement the Association’s Board of Directors offered no real explanation other than a rather terse:…

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Results of Our Readers’ Poll on the Future BBC Radio Scotland Piping Programme

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What to make of our BBC Poll? We asked readers to comment on the form they believed the new BBC Radio Scotland piping programme should take following the announcement of the discontinuation of ‘Pipeline’ and the Gaelic medium show ‘Crunluath’, writes the Editor. There is to be a new programme amalgamating both, though given the language issue it is not clear how this can be achieved. There was a very…

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P/M Donald MacLeod and His Technique and Finger Position on the Pipe Chanter

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The position of Donald MacLeod’s fingers on the pipe chanter, well illustrated in the photograph above, is a subject not new to us. Having seen him in action and viewed other available photographs of the Pipe Major I think he could actually be identified by his fingers only! In the 1960s, which is not terribly long ago, I had the good fortune of being a member of the 11th Battalion…

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Review: ‘Names & Places’ Concert, Celtic Connections

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Awa’ tae yer neeps. So said Ian Duncan after thanking everyone involved in this electrifying concert, thus evoking his Aberdeenshire roots and his family’s quiet brilliance as entertainers across the generations, writes Jack Taylor. The occasion was a Celtic Connections celebration of P/M Ian’s, and Vale of Atholl Pipe Band’s, groundbreaking album of 1990, ‘Names and Places’. The youngsters started proceedings. The National Youth Band of Scotland played selections reflecting…

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