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Our second installment of videos from the 2012 Pipes + Drums Recital at the 2012 Piping Live! Glasgow Festival of Piping features Pipe-Major Ross Walker and Leading-Drummer Gordon Brown of the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band of Bathgate, Scotland. The recital, free to all who wanted to listen, was put on once again by the nonprofit pipes|drums, with an aim to feature several of the world’s top pipe band leaders to showcase the styles that they bring to their bands. Walker and Brown kicked off the 2012 event, requesting . . .

Palmerston North Square, four acres of park, in the centre of Palmerston North, was the scene for the annual Jenny Mair Highland Square Day Championship, and Canterbury Caledonian of Christchurch won first overall Square Day Championship, taking both Grade 1 events and the overall drumming prize, concluding a 2012 that included Canterbury winning their first ever New Zealand National Championship title earlier in the year. The Square Day contests were started in 1980 and are held . . .

The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, the only large association to allow pipe band judges to consult with each other following events, is surveying its members on their opinion . . .

Another copyright issue is hitting the Highland piping world, as Ayrshire Bagpipes of Troon, Scotland, have been asked by the makers of Qwik Tune guitar tuners to change the name of its recently released ?39 Kwiktune Chanter Stock . . .

A concert by the Canadian Forces Pipes & Drums staged in Edmonton in November has raised more than $2,000 for “Soldier On,” a charity . . .

As the world’s pipers and drummers take a collective break, pipes|drums Magazine wishes all of our readers a merry Christmas. It’s been another great year for us, and we thank you for keenly following us throughout 2012. We counted . . .

It seems as though every Tom and Dick have some kind of year-end awards, so why not Harry? By no means meant to be a complete, comprehensive, or in any way serious attempt to write the history of the past year, our Harry Tung of Trailing Drones fame still would like to make his wee contribution to marking the passage of time and gas in the appropriate way. And the 2012 Raspberries go to . . .

Once again we bring pipers and drummers highlight videos to keep the fires burning over the long off-season in the northern hemisphere, and invigorating practice in the hot summer in the antipodes. We start the series with Leading-Drummer Jake J?rgensen and Pipe-Major Neil Hall of the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band, who performed at the pipes|drums-sponsored Pipes+Drums Recital at the 2012 Piping Live! Glasgow International . . .

pipetunes.ca presents . . . Tune of the Month: “Loch Carron” – Master piper Jim McGillivray considers D.C, Mather’s famous competition reel and makes a fascinating discovery in this subscribers-only feature, which includes a sound files of Jim playing various versions of the tune and published scores of the composition ¨C one a discovery from the 1800s that would have better informed the late Seumas MacNeill.

After just over a year in the role, Neil Hall has stepped down as Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band. Hall cited growing work commitments as the reason, which . . .

The seventeenth annual George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Competition will once again comprise a full day of contests for 10 of the . . .

Iain Speirs of Edinburgh completed a dream-like two weeks of piping, winning the Bratach Gorm for piobaireachd at the annual Scottish Piping Society of London competitions at the . . .

Although the New York Metro Pipe Band had planned months ago to stage a concert in Pittsburgh on November 10th, it didn’t know then that the event would follow a . . .

Ken Eller reviews the Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Music, Volume III ¨C or “cots Guards 3” ¨C one of the largest print collection of pipe music to be published in 30 years. He takes pipes|drums subscribers through the book’s highlights, and ponders some important questions of copyright and acknowledgment, as well as matters of style and taste. At $75 a pop, this potential Christmas gift is a guarded decision for pipers..

Kirk Brunson and Amber Stone were the overall winners at the 6th annual Balmoral Classic US Junior Solo Piping and Drumming Competition, an annual competition hosted by the Balmoral School is for U.S. citizens and U.S. residents aged 18 and younger. Fifteen pipers and four drummers competed . . .

The new Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Music, Volume III, printed by Nuvello Publishing Ltd. of London, a large and well . . .