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Aberdeen Games Results

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It was an almost perfect day for pipes at Aberdeen’s Hazelhead Park yesterday (June 18) – warm with light cloud cover, writes Piping Convenor Dr Jack Taylor. Nineteen seniors and ten juniors played, and it was encouraging to see three in the new chanter class, requiring two parts of a march. Piobaireachd judges described the playing as ‘interesting and good’; 18 played 18 different tunes, with longer pieces mixed with lighter….

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Editor’s Notebook: Boghall/ Regradings/ MacDougall Pipes/ Band Quartets/ British Legion 1970

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There are a couple of things that need to be said following the Boggies big win last weekend. This very much a community band with a loyal membership that has stuck with it over the decades irrespective of success or lack of it. This loyalty was much more common when I played in bands than it is today with butterfly bagpipers flitting around hither and thither before landing on another…

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The Tunes Bands Had to Play at Cowal’s World Championship in 1932

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A few weeks ago I said I would take a closer a look at the small book of tunes to be played by bands competing for the World Championship held at Cowal Highland Gathering in 1932, writes the Editor. The book, published by the Cowal Committee, cost 6d, about 3p today, and has the title ‘Selection of Marches, Strathspeys and Reels to be played by competitors in the World’s Championship…

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The Day Boghall & Bathgate Became Number 1

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The first major pipe band championship of the season was held on June 10 at Lurgan, Northern Ireland. The UK Champions Grade 1 title was secured to the surprise and delight of many by Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, so many years the nearly men and women of the pipe band world. Here their jubilant pipe major Ross Harvey shares his thoughts on a breakthrough occasion…. Saturday was a…

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Strathmore Games Results

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These Games were held in the grounds of Glamis Castle, Angus, last Sunday, June 11. The castle was the early home of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the late Queen Mother. The weather was mixed with a warm breeze, sunshine and some heavy showers.  Nine took part in the piping competitions. Results: Piobaireachd1 Ben Mulhearn2 Chris McLeish 3 Fraser Maitland4 John McDonald5 Hector Munro March1 Chris McLeish2 John McDonald3 Fraser Maitland4 Walter Glendinning5 Jeffrey…

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