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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
Novice-Juvenile band wins Scottish National Lottery Award