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The Saul Bass & Tenor Drum Tuner, a follow-on to the Saul Bagpipe Tuner launched last year, will make its debut at the 2009 Piping Live! Glasgow Festival . . .

While SFU won both Grade 1 events at the Seattle Highland Games, the event made news with Dowco-Triumph Street receiving . . .

With the Seattle Highland Games being the final competition of the 2009 British Columbia Pipers Association season, the organization . . .

Martin Kessler of Germany took down two firsts and a second, and P-M Michael Gray of . . .

Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland; Donald MacPhee of Alexandria, Scotland; and Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh each continued . . .

Martin Kessler of Germany won all four events at the Durness Games, a rare feat at any competition with . . .

Peter MacGregor of The Highlanders won all three events at the Halkirk Games. John . . .

It was a good day for the Gandy family at the Maxville Gold Medal competitions, as Bruce Gandy won the Bar . . .

Pipers and drummers have been familiar with tattoos ever since they built Edinburgh Castle . . . and they’re also well versed in the other kind of tattoos . . .

In preparation for the band’s concert and live recording at the Festival Intercetlique in Lorient, Brittany, in August, the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe . . .

I hear that there’s a move on in New Zealand to abolish awards for Bass-Sections, a la the RSPBA. Meanwhile the Ontario scene is testing out Mid-Section judging, with clipboard wielding unofficial adjudicators providing scoresheets to bands as an initial feedback mechanism. The scores will have no bearing on band […]

Twenty-five members of the Williamwood Pipe Band of Glasgow scaled the half-mile high Ben Lomond with their instruments ¨C including a bass drum . . .

To celebrate its 10 years, His Royal Highness Prince Charles returned to mark the success of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow . . .

Antwerp & District won the Continental Pipe Band Championship, winning both the Grade 2 and Open . . .

Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won the Atlanta Canada Piobaireachd Challenge, an event that . . .

The Sons of Scotland Pipe Band of Ottawa marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th by organizing a display of the pipes that Pipe-Major Sam Scott . . .