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We’re pleased to provide a potpourri of images each day from the world’s greatest piping and drumming event, this side of . . . well . . . the Worlds.

Iain MacDonald (Regina) reports from the epicentre of piping (and drumming) . . .

Iain MacDonald (Regina) reports from the epicentre of piping (and drumming) . . .

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Dr. Donaldson says about the tune, one of the shortest pieces in the repertory: The earliest report on the circumstances of its composition comes from James Logan in the notes for Angus MacKay’s published volume of 1838, which emphasize in Logan’s usual style a culture of chiefly munificence and quasi-feudal dependence

With the band’s roots intertwined in the Kingdom of Fife’s strong tradition of piping and drumming excellence, including direct ties with the two-time World Champions Dysart & Dundonald, and decades in Grade 1 under the Fife Constabulary name, Police Scotland Fife inches ever closer to the pinnacle of pipe band excellence.

Dr. Donaldson says about the tune: “Given the numerous alternative titles, and the fact that the tune in its pipe versions seems manifestly a different one from the Gaelic folk song of the same title, it might be wise to proceed cautiously here.”