 New Liddell Bagpipes promise to bridge vintage with modern
Last Updated: May 24, 2013The world famous piper Stuart Liddell has teamed with Wallace Bagpipes of Glasgow and G1 Reeds of Fife, Scotland, to create Liddell Bagpipes, a new range of instruments designed after Liddell's own antique MacRae drones, with the new line hitting the market in early-July. Liddell will also use the new pipes on a BBC Radio Scotland Pipeline broadcast on June 1st. Wallace Bagpipes will manufacture the drones, while G1 Reeds will make the chanter, and Liddell has worked with both companies to finalize production specs and quality control. "I felt there was a need to fill the gap between bagpipes from around the 1900s and a new modern set, and believe we have achieved a good, vintage sound," Liddell said." Liddell Bagpipes are based on a set I have played for many years with some slight modifications . . . Read More
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 | All-abilities/ages summer school hits Edinburgh in July |
Last Updated: May 22, 2013Edinburgh pipers and drummers – of any age or ability – can finally get organized, quality instruction in a three-day workshop designed to counter recent budget cuts by the City of Edinburgh Council . . . Read More
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 | Kiwi search for L-D's intensifies with Auckland & District joining the hunt |
Last Updated: May 20, 2013The pursuit of leading-drummers in New Zealand, with the Grade 1 Auckland & District competing with rivals ILT City of Invercargill for recruiting talent to run the back-end of the band. Auckland & District . . . Read More
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Updated: Jack Wield, 1950-2013
Last Updated: May 18, 2013Memorial details. Read More
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 | Large crowds for Moose Jaw and Regina weekend |
Last Updated: May 20, 2013The Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival took place in great weather, and despite a smaller-than-usual entry of bands and soloists, the games drew enthusiastic crowds of spectators to see the variety of offerings in both venues. Read More
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 | Prairie Piping Invitational Draws Full House |
Last Updated: May 20, 2013The revived Prairie Piping Invitational drew roughly 100 people for two hours of excellent piping. Organized by the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival, and sponsored by the City of Regina Pipe Band, the event featured six professional players . . . Read More
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Celtic Fest goes Transvaal's way; African Skye surges
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Large turnout for last 2013 Ontario indoor
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 pipetunes.ca presents . . . Tune of the Month: "Colin Mackay," a classic hornpipe from teenage fingers
Last Updated: May 2, 2013Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with Reay Mackay's hornpipe, composed as a kid in 1954. Subscribers to pipes|drums can enjoy the original manuscript of the tune, a classic image of a very young Reay Mackay with Colin Mackay, and instructional scores and sound files of McGillivray on the Deger pipe. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | pipes|drums reports: Associations' dues, fees and communications |
Last Updated: April 27, 2013We take a look at 15 of the world's most active pipe band associations and compare the dues that they charge to pipe bands and/or individuals and the charges for entry into collective competitions and/or single events. We also consider online entry and how they communicate with their members. The result is an illuminating summary of a wide array of costs, with one organization looking for a band of 35 pipers and drummers to pay more than $1,500 just to compete on their circuit during a calendar year. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | Roddy MacLeod: the pipes|drums Interview – Part 3 |
Last Updated: May 5, 2013In the third instalment of our exclusive interview with Roddy MacLeod, the Director of the National Piping Centre and the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping discusses in detail the relationship with Glasgow's College of Piping. He looks back to the origins of the Piping Centre, when the late Seumas MacNeill had a central role in its beginnings, only to fall out over a leadership disagreement. In Part 3, among many other topics, MacLeod takes an inward look at his career, and his professional contributions to the art. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | Roddy MacLeod: the pipes|drums Interview – Part 2 |
Last Updated: April 7, 2013We continue our exclusive discussion with Roddy MacLeod, one of the world's great builders of piping. In Part 1, MacLeod remembered his earliest years as a young piper in Cumbernauld, Scotland. In Part 2, MacLeod looks back on his formative piping years with his teacher, the legendary Duncan Johnstone. He goes into his early pipe band days with the Grade 1 Red Hackle in Glasgow under Pipe-Major Malcolm MacKenzie, leading to his long tenure with British Caledonian Airways / Power of Scotland / ScottishPower and the Spirit of Scotland, and the importance of strong soloists in the mix. He then touches on why he is not a judge with the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | Roddy MacLeod – the pipes|drums Interview – Part 1 |
Last Updated: March 16, 2013We bring our subscribers an exclusive interview with arguably Highland piping's most professional and well-rounded personalities. An extraordinary competitor, a leader of Grade 1 pipe bands, the original and existing Director of the National Piping Centre and the co-founder and leader of the Piping Live! Festival, Roddy MacLeod's contributions to the art are unparalleled. Add to all that a gregarious and generous personality, and you have one of history's all-time greatest exponents of the art. In four parts, including video, readers can look forward to a look into what propels this exceptional piper to ever greater achievements. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 Free-falling for sweet laser F's
Last Updated: April 21, 2013Pat Lynch reviews "Forte – Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall," the new DVD by the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band of their August 2012 Pre-World's Concert performance Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | Play the Suite music |
Last Updated: April 17, 2013Ross Hanning of Wellington, New Zealand, reviews the latest collection from Michael Grey - "Damned Suites" - the sixth book of music from the prolific Ontario-based composer and arranger. Subscribers Only: Read More
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 | On a king and a prayer |
Last Updated: March 10, 2013Barbara MacDonald reviews two new collections: The Balmoral Collection of Hymns, compiled by George Balderose, and A Collection of Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe, compiled by Pipe-Major Derek W.J. Potter. Subscribers Only: Read More
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Tradition is a story
Last Updated: February 16, 2013Kylie MacHattie reviews "Voicing Scotland," a new book by BBC Radio Scotland Pipeline presenter Gary West, on how "the traditions of lyrics, music, stories and literature identify and support Scotland's national identity in these pre-referendum times." (Subscribers only.) Subscribers Only: Read More
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