Ryan Wang is 18 year old student on the National Piping Centre’s HNC/D piping course and has a busy young life juggling his studies with his commitments to his pipe band, his martial art and working in his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Clydebank. He was born in Glasgow and attended St Saviour’s […]
by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #90, 2018. I feel like a lot of my articles are complaints. I sit here behind my laptop like some whingeing granny in the hairdressers, bleating on about how the world has changed and how uncomfortable I am with that concept. Because of the often cantankerous […]
In September of 1968 Piping Times published an article on the source of two tunes: Crodh Chailein (Colin’s Cattle) and Within a mile of Edinburgh town. The article is written by James E. Scott, and he begins with saying he has written this in reply to the Rev. Howard G. […]
PART THREE of Taigh a’ Phìobaire • By HUGH CHEAPE and DECKER FORREST • Piping Today 2011 In part two of this article, we looked at the substantial musical legacy of Angus Mackay and his family. As well as books and music, another tangible link with Angus is his image. He is remarkable for being […]
By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 5 • Nov/Dec 1923 On November 17th the Oban Times reported: “Noted Piper. There died in the Belford Hospital Fort William last week, Mr Alexander Cameron, an authority on pipe music, and himself a talented executants on the bagpipe. A Ross-shire man, he was for […]
Happy New Year and all the best for 2024 to the piping community all over the World! Today we look back to photos from the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green in August 2013. It was the first time the Worlds was held over two days, and there is a […]
It’s Hogmanay 2023, and this year will be fondly remembered by the guys and gals of Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band as they won their first ever Grade 1 Worlds, and it was a pleasure to be there and watch them celebrate with wild abandon. But for the […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #85 • 2017. It was the moon on nights like this, it was nights like this, it was the wind as it pawed at you or cried as it approached, the sound of the river, the clotted stars against the dark sky, the […]
September of 1923 was an eventful month for piping. The King and Queen attended the Braemar Gathering and lords, ladies and gentlemen turned out in their finery at the Aboyne Games. The senior competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering were contested by Robert Reid, GS McLennan and Willie Ross and produced […]
PART TWO of Taigh a’ Phìobaire • By HUGH CHEAPE and DECKER FORREST • Piping Today 2010 The Piper’s House and Raasay tradition was the starting point for our exploration of the piping heritage of the Mackays of Raasay. It is immediately evident that the picture can be richly filled out […]
