John Dew, one of our leading piping talents, has produced his debut collection of pipe music. The book, titled simply Pipe Tunes, contains over 80 new compositions entirely from the Crieff-born piper’s pen. The book is available at £19.50 but this will increase to £22.00 on December 14. There will […]
Delvinside, according to Keith Norman MacDonald (1835-1913), is one of our finest strathspeys and also one of our older ones. It is idle to speculate as to who composed it at this time of day as it has been for so long printed anonymously. The locality of the tune has […]
Entries are now open to the 2021 annual junior competition organised by the National Piping Centre. The competition is open to all pipers and chanter players aged under 18 years of age. This will the 25th year of the competition and more categories will feature this time, including a new […]
UPDATED WITH THE TUNES PLAYED – The results from the recent online competition organised by the Scottish Piping Society of London (SPSL) are as follows: C GradeCeòl Mòr – 1. Luke Kennedy (Lady MacDonalds’ Lament); 2. Scott Armstrong (I Got a Kiss of the King’s Hand); 3. Andrew McPhee (Isabel MacKay); […]
Pipe Major Alistair Duthie, formerly of The Black Watch, has composed a tune in memory of the 14th Army, the multi-national force that comprised units from the Commonwealth countries of Great Britain during the Second World War. The 14th Army – dubbed the Forgotten Army because its operations in the […]
A piper who is a member of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers has said he is groped, humiliated, sexually assaulted and photographed indecently by women on a regular basis while wearing his kilt. Willie Armstrong is one of the founding members of the world famous piping rock group which was […]
The National Piping Centre (NPC) has partnered online shopping giant, Amazon in a new fundraising initiative. AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on amazon.co.uk. The difference is that when customers shop through […]
After our post that the National Piping Centre (NPC) in Glasgow will next year mark 25 years, Jim Todd of the Kilsyth Pipe Band contacted us with some childhood memories of the iconic McPhater Street building. Says Jim [pictured]: “I was born in 1948, not a quarter of a mile […]
John Dew’s Glenfiddich performance of Roddy S. MacDonald’s Lament for Alex Duncan can now be appreciated on demand. John, a recent graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BMus (Traditional Music – Piping) Degree course, played Roddy’s tune at this year’s online Glenfiddich held behind closed doors in the Ballroom […]
A painting by an English artist but with a Scottish subject drew attention at an online auction held last month. The Piper who played the retreat at Tobruk [pictured] is an oil on canvas painting by Winifred Nicholson. The Cornish painter created the piece in 1952 and it stands 2ft […]
