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History: Duncan Campbell, His Manuscript and His Bagpipe

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We are very grateful to Mr Bill Wotherspoon, Gold Medallist, solo piping adjudicator and Secretary of the Piobaireachd Society, for forwarding photographs and information relating to piper Duncan Campbell of Foss, Perthshire. Mr Wotherspoon was recently on a trip to the South Island of New Zealand and spotted the pictures and text in the Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin. Duncan Campbell is known to all piobaireachd students and piping historians as…

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Results and Report from Dunedin Highland Games, Florida

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From the Sunshine State of Florida, our Special Correspondent reports on the Dunedin Highland Games……. Now arguably one of the larger solo and pipe band gatherings in North America, Dunedin, that west coast Florida town with Scottish roots (twinned with Stirling), packs a real punch with an ever-growing and burgeoning Highland Games. As the solos kicked off at 9am so did a few thousand 5k runners in the humid, high…

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Preview of Third Annual Virginia International Tattoo American Pipe Band Championship

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Organisers have sent this press release…….The Virginia International Tattoo is pleased to announce that 10 bands are registered to compete in the 2018 Virginia International Tattoo American Pipe Band Championship. The third annual event will take place on Saturday, April 28 at Scope Arena (above) in Norfolk, Virginia, and is open to Grade 2 and Grade 3 pipe bands from around the world. City of Dunedin Pipe Band (Florida) and…

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Australian PB Champs./ Skye Piping Review

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On the eve of this year’s Australian Pipe Band Championships, Pipe Bands Australia have announced details of their plans for the 2020 contest, their Diamond Jubilee Year. Forty bands have entered the  2018 championship which take place at the Brisbane Boys Club, Toowong, Queensland, on Saturday, April 7. In the run up to the contest PBA have also instituted a Hall of Fame recognising individuals who have made an outstanding…

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Why Ensemble Matters in Pipe Band Adjudication

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Having previously contributed a number of articles about pipe band ensemble in the RSPBA’s quarterly magazine when I was an ensemble adjudicator and also deeply involved in adjudicator training, the Editor of Piping Press asked me for my thoughts on a suggestion made recently that it is now perhaps time for this type of adjudication to be abolished due to ineffective adjudication. I am a strong supporter of ensemble adjudication…

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