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Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band as Reported in the 1950s

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We thought that given the photographs and information we’ve all ready published on the City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band, now sadly defunct, we should round things off with the history of the band as recorded in the Piping and Dancing Bulletin of the 1950s. Here’s how it reads: ‘The Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band; Tartan: Prince Charles Edward Stuart; Pipe Major: Duncan S. Cameron ‘The City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band,…

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PP Editor’s Blog 28/2/15

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Thanks to everyone who re-tweeted and passed on yesterday’s post re the SFU concert. The response has been very gratifying and I hope the ticket sales have been given a boost. One error to correct: the World’s Week concert is on August 12 NOT August 15 as I had it. Click on the ad. below to buy your briefs.[wds id=”4″] Only just over a week till the South Florida Pipe…

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Brighde Chaimbeul/ MacKenzie Cal./ History

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Talented young piper Brighde Chaimbeul emerged victorious from last weekend’s National Piping Centre Junior solo competition, picking up first in Piobaireachd and March, Strathspey and Reel and second in Jigs and thus the overall prize. Brigdhe is continuing her well-deserved run of success which included the Scots Guards Junior Solos last autumn (see pic).[wds id=”3″] Dundee’s MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band have issued a new CD on the KRL label (see main…

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Lomond & Clyde Seek New P/M & A Look Back at 1823

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P/M David Wotherspoon has stepped down as P/M of the Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band after a very successful period in charge, winning many major championships in Grade 2. In a statement the band said: ‘The band would like to announce that Pipe Major David Wotherspoon has this evening stepped down from his position with Lomond and Clyde.  ‘Davie has been instrumental to the band’s progression since being appointed to the position…

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Scottish Pipers ‘Music of First World War’ Part 3

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Robert Wallace writes: Erudite and interesting I said; erudite and interesting it was. In the third of his lectures about WW1 and its pipe music, author Colin Campbell succeeded yet again in adding life and colour to what to most pipers are mere names at the top of a pipe music score. Who was Captain Lumsden or CM Usher or John S MacMurchie DCM MM? Last weekend Mr Campbell gave us…

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