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PP Ed’s Blog: Online Band Registrations/ Piob Soc Conf/ Recital Cancelled/Neil in Falklands/ WW1 Tunes

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The RSPBA have announced that registration for all major championships for 2018 is now available online. Chief Executive Ian Embelton says on the RSPBA website: ‘Online entries are now open for the 2018 championship season. ‘Entries for bands and drum majors will only be available online. We introduced this facility three years ago and in 2017 almost all entries were made online so we have now decided to remove the…

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Donald Maclean/Gary Nimmo/Guards KO/Peter Bain/Metro Cup

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A visit to Mrs Fiona Johnston last week yielded some interesting and important additional information and memorabilia on the life and times of her uncle P/M Donald Maclean of Lewis, and this has been added to our Famous Pipers column. We are grateful to Mrs Johnston for her assistance. Congratulations to Gary Nimmo, Ullapool schools instructor, who has taken over the Bagpipe Specialists Highland supply company from Alison Sinclair. We…

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Scots Guards Knock Out

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[easyrotator]erc_12_1414049835[/easyrotator] Organiser Jimmy Banks (right) has announced the following contestants in the popular Scots Guards Knock Out competition. The heats are held in the Scots Guards Association Club at Haymarket, Edinburgh, and a delicious curry is served during the course of the afternoon. The 2014/15 competition features some of the rising stars of the solo piping world: Sarah Muir, Greig Wilson, Craig Sutherland, Greg Canning, Steven Gray, Callum Moffat, Scott…

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