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Piping & drumming organizations

Alberta Society of Pipers & Drummers
Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations
Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association
Australian Pipe Band Association
Australian Pipe Bands Community
Austrian Pipe Band Association
Bagpipe Association of Germany
The Bagpipe Society
BC Pipers' Association
Competition League of Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP)
Competing Pipers Association
Eagle Pipers' Society
Eastern United States Pipe Band Association
Irish Pipe Band Association
Midwest Highland Arts Fund
Midwest Pipe Band Association
Netherlands Pipe Band Association
New Zealand Piobaireachd Society
Northumbrian Pipers Society
The Piobaireachd Society
Pipe Band Association of Scandinavia
Pipe Bands Association of Southern Africa
Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario
Pipers Club of the Carolinas
Practical Pipers Society
Royal Air Force Pipe Band Association
Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands Association
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
RSPBA - London/South England branch
RSPBA - Northeast England branch
RSPBA - Northern Ireland branch
Saskatchewan Pipe Band Association
Southern United States Pipe Band Association
United States Piping Foundation
Victorian Pipers Association
Western United States Pipe Band Association

Piping & drumming businesses

Avonlea Communications
BagpipeLessons.com
The British Shop
Bruce Gandy Music
Cameron's Drumming Studio
Crozier Bagpipe Reeds
Field Marshal Montgomery "Recharged"
Fred Morrison Reelpipes and Smallpipes
Henderson Reedmakers
Highland Gear Pipe Band Products
John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd.
Kinnaird Bagpipes & Reeds
McGillivray Piping
Moose Bagpipe Products
R.G. Hardie & Co. Bagpipe Makers
St. Kilda Highland Wear
Sound Supreme Precision Made Reeds

Pipe bands

1 Medical Battalion Pipe Band
78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band
Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band
Allegheny & District Pipe Band
Annsborough Pipe Band
Antwerp & District Pipe Band
Arbroath Royal British Legion Pipe Band
Atlanta Pipe Band
Australia Highlanders Pipe Band
Aughintober Pipe Band
Bagad Cap Caval
Battlehill Pipe Band
Bellingham Pipe Band
Benoni Mac-Talla Pipe Band
Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band
Bowmanville Highland Pipe Band
Braemar Pipe Band
Brighton Legion Highlanders
Bucksburn & District Pipe Band
Burnett's & Struth Pipe Band
Canberra Highland Society Burns Club Pipe Band
Canterbury Caledonian Pipe Band
Chelsea Fire Pipes & Drums
Chicago Caledonian Pipe Band
City of Aberdeen Pipe Band
City of Alexandria Pipes & Drums
City of Aukland Pipe Band
City of Chicago Pipe Band
City of Dunedin Pipe Band
City of Exeter Pipes & Drums
City of Invercargill Caledonian Pipe Band
City of Melbourne Pipe Band
City of Regina Pipe Band
City of Tauranga Pipe Band
City of Washington Pipe Band
Clackmanannshire Pipe Band
Clan Donald Pipe Band - Dutch Pipes & Drums
Clan Gregor Pipe Band
Claymore Pipes & Drums
Copenhagen Caledonia Pipe Band
Concord Pipe Band
Cullen Pipe Band
Cullybackey Pipe Band
Dofasco Pipe Band
Dr. O'Hurley Pipe Band
Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band
Dumbarton & District Pipe Band
Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary Pipe Band
Gatwick Caledonian Pipe Band
Dundas Pipes and Drums
Dunoon Argylle Pipe Band
Durham Regional Police Pipe Band
Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band
Edmonton & District Pipe Band
Fergus Pipe Band
400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron Pipes & Drums
Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band
Pipes & Drums of the 1st Royal Engineers (Sweden)
Fort Frances Highlanders
Fort Lauderdale Highlanders
48th Highlanders of Canada
Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band
The Frost Pipe Band
Georgetown Pipe Band
Glasgow Pipe & Drums
Glengarry Pipe Band
Gortaclare Pipe Band
Grampian Police Pipe Band
Greater Victoria Police Pipe Band
Hamilton Pipe Band (New Zealand)
Hamilton Police Pipe Band
Harpenden Pipe Band
Hawthorn City Pipe Band
Holbaek Pipe Band
Innisfil Pipes & Drums
Invera'an Pipe Band
Jacksonville Pipes & Drums
John Mohr MacKintosh Pipes & Drums
Johnstone Pipe Band
Kinsmen Pipe Band
Lanarkshire Pipe Band
Lerwick Royal British Legion Pipe Band
linlithgow & District Pipe Band
London Fire Fighters Pipe Band
Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band
Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band
MacGillivray Pipe Band
MacKenzie Caledonian Pipe Band
Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band
Manchester Pipe Band
Manchester Phoenix Pipe Band
Memorial Pipe Band Dookinella
Mesa Caledonian Pipe Band
Midlothian Scottish Pipe Band
Milton & District Pipe Band
Monaghan Pipe Band
New Zealand Police Pipe Band
Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band
North Coast Pipe Band
Northwest Territorial Pipe Band
Oran Mor Pipe Band
Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band
Paris & District Pipe Band
Peel Regional Police Pipe Band
Penetangore Pipe Band
Penicuik & District Pipe Band
Phoenix Honda Glasgow Skye Pipe Band
The Pipeband Club
Pitlochry & Blair Atholl Pipe Band
Polkemmet Pipe Band
Pride of Murray Pipe Band
Prince Charles Pipe Band
Queensland Highlanders Pipe Band
Ravara Pipe Band
Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band
Rob Roy Pipe Band
Rocky Mountain Pipe Band
Royal Air Force Halton Pipes & Drums
Royal Burgh of Annan Pipe Band
Royal Burgh of Stirling Pipe Band
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43 Pipes & Drums
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Regimental Pipes & Drums
Royal ulster Constabulary Pipe Band
Saffron United Pipe Band
St. Andrew's Pipe Band (Brisbane, Australia)
St. Andrew's-Mississauga Pipes & Drums
St. Columcille Pipe Band
St. James Gate Pipe Band
St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band
Scarborough Pipe Band
ScottishPower Pipe Band
Scots Guards Association Pipes & Drums (Manchester Branch)
Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
Sierra Highlanders Pipe Band
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
Sons of Scotland Pipe Band
Soo Caledonia Pipe Band
Southern Cross Pipe Band (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Spirit of Scotland
Stirling Pipe Band
Strathclyde Police Pipe Band
Tayside Police Pipe Band
Tokyo Pipe Band
Toronto Police Pipe Band
Torphichen and Bathgate Pipe Band
Tullylagan Pipe Band
Ulster Scottish Pipe Band
Upper Crossgare Pipe Band
Vale of Atholl Pipe Band
Veterans Memorial Pipe Band
Wessex Highlanders
Western Australia Police Pipe Band
Pipes & Drums of the West Midlands Fire Service
Williamstown RSL Pipe Band
Williamwood Pipe Band
Windsor Police Pipe Band
Winnipeg Heather Belle Ladies' Pipe Band

Not-for-profit piping and drumming schools

College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada
National Piping Centre (Glasgow, Scotland)
SPBA Summer School, Saskatchewan
The Stratford Sessions

Miscellaneous interesting sites

Islay Jane Spalding Contemporary Jewellery Design
Ryan MacDonald Photography
Aileen McKerrell Handmade Designer Jewellery
The Captain's Corner
BBC Radio Scotland - Pipeline
Celtic Connections
Hugh MacCallum
Theodore Babiak, Real Estate Maverick
Pipers War Memorial Foundation
Barry Shears
Drum-Major.co.uk
Pibroch.net
St. Louis Cardinals
Toronto Blue Jays
Edinburgh Hibernian
Glasgow Celtic
Glasgow Rangers
Heart of Midlothian

June 19, 1949

Inveran Hotel burns at Invershin; Mrs. MacPherson unhurt.

Apex of piping . . .

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Willie McCallum: the pipes|drums Interview, Part 2

Pipers: When making a taorluath or crunluath from D, slightly flex the right-hand's fingers out a bit just before the movement. This will help to lift the ring-finger for that B gracenote.

Andrew Berthoff, pipes|drums