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Our choices for the best of the year

The great Scottish accordionist Sir Jimmy Shand died at the age of 92 on December 23, 2000, and was laid to rest in Auchtermuchty, Fife, on December 29. Many of Shand’s compositions are staples of the Highland bagpipe repertory, including the marches “Dundee Military Tattoo” and “Kirkwall Bay.” Shand sold […]

[Originally published as an Editorial] “Prizes won by pupils when their teachers were judging are not worth a pail of spit,” were the famous and, as it turned out, legally actionable words printed by the late Seumas MacNeill. The Piping Times and the College of Piping in Glasgow were subsequently […]

Wilson takes Bratach, McCallum MSR

Returns as leader after resigning in October

Grade 5 bands to be considered, increased piobaireachd requirement

There are few people alive today in the pipe band world who have been part of so many great pipe bands as Jim Hutton. Over his 50 years of competing at the Grade 1 level, not only did he play with and against the great Alex Duthart, but he worked […]

Pipes Ready! A Set-Up and Maintenance Guide for the Great Highland Bagpipe

Fort William event brings out all-star players

16 North American pipers compete in three events

Winning designer receives $500

Decides to make sabbatical permanent

Part of Scotland’s ‘Year of the Artist’ program

‘The Book of the Bagpipe’ by Hugh Cheape

Lochgilphead twins to hold leadership duties