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I was reading an annotation of a pipe tune in another piping publication recently and thought it time to point out a deficiency that has long existed in the way we notate pipe tunes . . .
The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band has appointed Reagan Jones as its new Leading-Tenor. Jones takes over from . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA), as it had promised, is reviewing the Musical Appreciation & Presentation (MAP) system that the association introduced to Grade 4 and Novice Juvenile bands . . .
This photograph is of a commemoration dinner in Edinburgh in October 1952 for the great Pipe-Major Willie Ross . . .
An appeal has been launched in Scotland so that a cairn for Pipe-Major William Ross, MVO, MBE may be built to commemorate his life and contribution to piping and Scots culture . . .
The Grade 2 Maple Ridge Pipe Band of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, thanks to an influx of new players, is still alive despite losing several pipers . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has completed its grading adjustments for 2007, and the Grade 2 Champion of Champion, the Tayside Police Pipe Band . . .
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The biggest two events of the solo seasons for pipers and drummers occur on October 28 with the . . .
Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, won the overall Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship after finishing first in the Piobaireachd event . . .
Steven McWhirter of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band won his first World Solo Drumming Championship . . .
The Tayside Police Pipe Band celebrated its official promotion to Grade 1 . . .
In 1985 the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band in an attempt to find a sponsor printed and distributed stickers of a practice-chanter-playing skeleton, with the question . . .
Jim McGillivray: It’s time that a piping judge sounded the alarm for lower-grade bands setting their chanters so sharp, so here it is: stop setting your chanter pitch so sharp! It’s insipid!
I was reading an annotation of a pipe tune in another piping publication recently and thought it time to point out a deficiency that…
Lyle Davidson considers the tuning of the Highland pipe