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[Originally published as an Editorial] The rivalry between pipers and drummers has gone on, as far as we know, since pipers and drummers banded together around 1850. Cross-section banter in bands is generally light-hearted, everyone has a laugh, and the friendly rivalry continues. Sometimes, though, it gets old. The drummers’ […]
[Originally published as an Editorial] Medley competitions for pipe bands have been around for almost 30 years, yet they are still judged using the same basic criteria as those applied to March, Strathspey & Reels. In fact, they’re different things altogether, and they should be judged accordingly. Today’s creative medley […]
[Originally published as an Editorial] Most readers of the Piper & Drummer compete in piping, drumming, and pipe band events. Competition can make us see our world and our music in a critical light, making us perhaps too often too quick to judge in everything what’s good and what’s not, […]
San Francisco – May 10, 2008 – Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, was the winner of the annual Dr. Dan Reid Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition and Recital held at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel.MastersPiobaireachd1st Willie McCallum2nd Jack Lee, Surrey, British Columbia3rd Roddy MacLeod, GlasgowMSR1st Willie McCallum2nd Roddy MacLeod3rd […]
The 29th William Livingstone Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition was won by Simon McKerrell of Glasgow with a first-prize in the . . .