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Gordon Duncan Tribute/ George Sherriff Results

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A special concert is to be held at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow to celebrate 30 years of the release since the groundbreaking ‘Live ‘n Well’ album by Vale of Atholl Pipe Band under P/M Ian Duncan. A Gordon Duncan Tribute Band will lead the musical offering at the concert with input from Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton. P/M Duncan, Gordon’s brother, and Ryan King have hand picked a line…

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‘Piping’ World Record in Melbourne/ Stuart Liddell’s Winning MSR at London

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The above video has received 160,680 views so far, writes the Editor. Thanks to the reader who forwarded the link. The video is of pipers gathered in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, on 12th Nov 2025. The organisers say 374 pipers took part creating a world record for pipers playing in ‘unison’. They did not play a proper pipe tune but rather passages from ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top…

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Editor’s Notebook: Bands Under Threat/ Big Rab Show/ Angus MacKay/ Talk Piobaireachd

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The well-documented concerns of the audience at last summer’s Worlds is not the only matter which seems to have been passed over by the RSPBA Board of Directors at their October meeting. What about the demise of two of our Grade 1 pipe bands, Johnstone and Closkelt? Did this merit any air time at all? There is a line in the minutes which tells us that one enlightened director did…

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More Must Be Done for the Audience at the Worlds

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From our reports this week it is clear World Pipe Band Championships took up a large part of the discussion at the recent RSPBA Board of Directors meeting. But supporters and members of the public are angry that a number of issues that affect them don’t seem to have been given any airing. If they were, then they certainly were not minuted. Mr J Nicholson spoke for many who contacted…

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Reaction and More RSPBA News

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Correspondent Ian Forbes has commented on yesterday’s disappointing news regarding the 2026 Major Championships. Ian writes: ‘If it is confirmed that, in a sad repeat of this year, there will only be four Majors for 2026, then it will represent a substantial failure by the RSPBA and its Board of Directors. ‘Alternative options and models for financing the Majors have been highlighted previously on Piping Press. ‘These included self-funding by…

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