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Keegan Sheehan of Queensbury, New York, was the overall winner of the Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Championships, an event that brings together the top non-professional-class pipers from North America. The event . . .
An interview with the great piper and longtime BBC producer
Matt Carter: Composing drum scores for your band’s contest repertoire can be a challenging task. In trying to create and maintain a competitive edge for your band, it is important to keep many of the basic fundamentals in mind. Rhythm, dynamics, and excit
On September 17, 2006, the Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl Pipe Band celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre with more than 400 members, former-members . . .
The world’s makers of Highland bagpipes may be faced with blackwood quality and quantity issues, mainly due to technology and the whims of . . .
The annual piping competitions of the Royal National Mod were held in Dunoon as part of An Comunn Gaidhealach, and Willie McCallum of Bearsden . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s National Council has delayed by one week its meeting to finalize grading recommendations . . .
The executive committee of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has decided to change its annual general meeting to . . .
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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