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February 14, 2025

It’s Valentine’s Day: time to look at “MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart”

What prompted Donald Roy MacCrimmon to compose this beloved piob? Was it a fair and bonnie Highland lass who spurned his advances? Or maybe he wooed a woman playing it at the door of her shieling at Borreraig? Well, neither were the beneficiaries of this dulcet bagpipe love song. Not even close.
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February 5, 2025

George Davie and the Edinburgh connection

Iain MacDonald (Regina) brings us the story of a machinist-piper who created an ingenious device to speed the process...
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February 4, 2025

On guard for thee: David Hilder reviews the new and improved PitchGuard Split-Stock System from Chris Apps Reeds

The new version of the product, originally launched in 2022, provides interesting new features and benefits...
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February 3, 2025

Win tickets to Invictus Games opening ceremony Feb. 8th in Vancouver!

pipes|drums readers might have wondered what happened to the story about the massed pipes and drums performing at the...
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February 1, 2025

Pipes owned by Robert Reid up for auction

Two sets of pipes once owned by the great Robert Reid are being auctioned by his grandson and granddaughter. One...
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MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart composed. Neil Dickie gets inspiration for “The Clumsy Lover.”
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