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The second installment in Bob Worrall’s exclusive series for pipes|drums subscribers on techniques to becoming a better instructor . . .
The 60-odd solo pipers toiling away at the 2014 piobaireachds set for the 2014 Gold and Silver medal competitions at the world’s major gatherings . . .
Dynamic new design and features make the latest version of the world’s most-read piping and drumming magazine even better for our many thousands of readers!
Inveraray & District, one of the world’s most popular, successful and talented pipe bands, is undertaking several significant changes this spring . . .
After 37 years in the post, Terry Cleland will step down as pipe-Major of the Grade 2 400 Squadron Pipe Band of Ontario, handing over the reins to newly appointed Pipe-Sergeant Matt MacIsaac . . .
Zack Miller, Johnny Rowe and Matt Bellia were the winners of the snare, bass and tenor events, respectively at the Agnew-Harrison Drumming Championship
About 45 pipers and drummers orchestrated a surprise flash mob in Perth, Australia, to draw attention to the March 29th State Pipe Band Championships, put on by Pipe Bands Western Australia.
New McAllister line of pipe chanters in plastic, available in a variety of colours in addition to the standard black.
Alex Cupples died in his 91st Year, on Sunday, March 16, 2014, at Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Born in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, on August 26, 1923, and raised and educated in Scotland, as a boy he learned to play bagpipes from Tom Kettles. At the age of 14, he enrolled […]
Alastair Lee and Grant Maxwell were the winners, respectively, of the annual British Columbia Pipers Association . . .
We continue our archival interview with the late Angus J. MacLellan, in which he discusses being a right-shouldered piper, the early days . . .
Steven Leask of Glasgow won two of the three B-Grade events, including the Piobaireachd and . . .
Murray Blair, the man who has worked to perfect the tuning of bass and tenor drones, has developed new technology to help tune bass and tenor drums . . .
The one-woman pledge-driver, Fiona Morris, who has so far almost single-handedly raised more than $25,000 for the Bone Cancer Research Trust, is at it again
George Stephen “Stevie” Geddes, the long-time pipe-sergeant of the Grade 1 City of Victoria Pipe Band, died on March 4, 2014, in his 64th year following a prolonged illness. As is the case with many pipe-sergeants of prominent bands, Geddes held a strong reputation for those in the know for […]