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Glenfiddich Championship 2022 Results

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The Glenfiddich Champion for 2022 is William McCallum. He was placed third in ceòl mòr and first in light music to take the overall title. Piobaireachd placings:1 Callum Beaumont, Lament for the Earl of Antrim2 Fred Morrison, End of the Great Bridge3 William McCallum, Lachlan MacNeill Campbell of Kintarbert’s Fancy4 Angus D. MacColl, Nameless, Cherede Darievea5 Glenn Brown, Rory MacLeod’s Lament MSR placings:1 William McCallum, Crags of Stirling, Susan MacLeod,…

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Editor’s Notebook: Northern Winter School/ Andrew Wright/ French Piper/ Sun Belt/ Howard Memorial

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To Germany’s Northern Winter School today for another week of hard work imparting the finer, and not so finer, points of the art of the great Highland bagpipe. The school, at a youth hostel about an hour north of Hannover, is growing in strength and sells out almost immediately it is advertised. That is due to the quality of the teaching and the marketing and organisational ability of the Principal,…

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History of the World Pipe Band Championships – Part 1

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We are grateful to correspondent Alistair Aitken for this updated history of the World Pipe Band Championship……. The World Pipe Band Championships (WPBC) is the main event in the annual calendar of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA).  The Championships have a long history stretching back to 1906, but were not organised by the RSPBA (then SPBA) until 1947.  Initially the Championships were part of the Cowal Highland Gathering…

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More Tributes Paid to the Late Andrew Wright

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A large number of readers have left messages of condolence on our Comments section. This morning the tributes have continued to arrive and we thought it best, given Andrew’s undoubted status in the piping world, to carry them with more prominence. We also include additional photographs from his long life in piping. Allan Hamilton of Pipers Persuasion: ‘We are sad at hearing of the passing of our friend Andrew. I…

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Andrew Wright 1936 – 2022

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The death has been reported of Andrew Wright, Dunblane, one of the outstanding pipers and teachers of the post war period. Andrew was 86. He began piping in the Boys Brigade and studied under Peter MacLeod Senior before moving on to P/M Donald MacLeod. It was when playing at the Braemar Gathering that he was called over by judge RB Nicol, Balmoral, who invited him for lessons. Andrew, an engineer…

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