Logan Tannock was voted the new President of the Scottish Pipers’ Association at the organisation’s annual general meeting last night. Logan, who lives in Clackmannanshire in central Scotland, takes over from Tom Johnstone who did not seek re-nomination. Logan was previous Vice-President. Logan is well known face in the piping […]
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has confirmed to bagpipe.news that it will not proceed with a formal inquiry into the financial affairs the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association.” Its spokesman, Ian Grieve said in a statement: “‘OSCR has reviewed the requested information provided by the charity and […]
Last August, I arrived with my family on Ascension Island. Ascension is a small island, roughly the size of Benbecula, sitting alone in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. Its nearest neighbour, St Helena, is about 800 miles away to the south east while the coasts of Brazil and […]
The current Grade 2 Champion of Champions, Closkelt Pipe Band is hosting a concert this spring in Armagh, Northern Ireland. The band was promoted to Grade 1 last September. The concert, entitled ‘2020 Vision’, will take place at the Market Place Theatre in Armagh in County Armagh. Field Marshal Montgomery […]
Tobar an Dualchais, the archival project that digitises, catalogues and disseminates Gaelic and Scots sound recordings online, is seeking information on the surviving family of Pipe Major James Robertson, Gordon Highlanders (b. 1886-d. 1961). Recordings of Robertson, the composer of Farewell to the Creeks, have been discovered – both spoken […]
We kick off today with an appeal for a unique practice chanter. June Ross, a relation of Pipe Major George MacKenzie, Seaforth Highlanders, wishes for the return of the instrument. Unfortunately, we do not have a photograph of it. June says: “It was presented to my great uncle by the […]
What is going on inside our drones? This interesting article from 1958 touches on that subject as well as on distortion, tone, pitch and sound waves, subjects most pipers don’t understand as fully as they’d like to think. By Bill Jones and James McColl* Before delving into this article too […]
The judges for this year’s major pipe band championships have been announced by the RSPBA. They are:
The eight pipers who will compete at this year’s Pipe Major Donald MacLeod Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition have been confirmed as: Stuart Liddell, Niall Stewart, Iain Speirs, Angus MacColl Snr., Connor Sinclair, Sarah Muir, Willie McCallum,Gordon McCready. The competition will be held on Friday April 3 at the Caladh […]
By Major D. M. Henderson, Women’s Royal Army Corps TA Continuing the article reprinted from British Army Review of 1988. We are grateful to Brigadier P. H. O’meara and to the author, Dr Diana Henderson, for permission to publish. After the First World War there was a serious shortage of […]
