Results from the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society members’ competition 2025

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John Slavin
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This years Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society members’ competition took place on April 25, May 9 and May 10 in the Society rooms in central Edinburgh.

The judges were Anne Spalding, Willie MacIntyre, Euan Anderson, Kenny MacBride, Margaret Houlihan and Wilson Brown.

The prizewinners were as follows:

‘B’ Piobaireachd

  1. Malcolm McCaig – Lament for Alan, My Son
  2. Keith Adam – The Duke of Atholl’s Salute

Senior Members’ March

  1. John Frater – The Scots Guards March Through Jerusalem
  2. Iain MacDonald – Lady Lever Park
  3. Malcolm McCaig – Mrs John McColl

Slow March / Air

  1. Stuart Letford – The South Georgia Whaling Song
  2. Ian Laurenson – Morag of Dunvegan
  3. Gordon Wallace – Loch Rannoch

6/8 March

  1. John Frater – Price of a Bottle of Beer
  2. Charles Dunbar – Macleod of Mull
  3. Bob Frater – Andrew Frater

2/4 March

  1. Charles Dunbar – The Glenfinnan Highland Gathering
  2. Bob Frater – James Scott Skinner’s Welcome to Inverness
  3. Dugald Macleod – The Australian Ladies

Strathspey and Reel

  1. Charles Dunbar – The Shephard’s Crook / Lt Col DJS Murray
  2. Stuart Letford – Dora MacLeod / Alick C. MacGregor
  3. Dugald Macleod – Arniston Castle / The Smith of Chilliechasie

‘A’ Ceòl Mòr

  1. Charles Dunbar – The Glen Is Mine
  2. John Frater – The Groat
  3. Stuart Letford – Lament for Donald of Laggan

March, Strathspey and Reel

  1. John Frater – The Sprig of Ivy/Here We Go/Scott/EMF [S&R composed by John Frater]
  2. Colin McNeil – Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque/The Ewe wi’ the Crooked Horn/Alick C. MacGregor
  3. Bob Frater – Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque/Clachnaharry/Back of the Moon

Jig

  1. John Frater – The Barley Mow
  2. Leslie Barrett – The Mull of Kintyre
  3. Stephen Whitton
  4. Bob Frater – Echoes of Oban