The Waipu Highland Games in New Zealand held their 150th Anniversary Games on January 1, 2023. Organised by the Waipu Caledonian Society, the Games offers solo piping and drumming competitions for all levels, and is proceeded on Hogmanay by a freestyle open solo competition for the Helen McGregor Memorial Trophy. […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. If you have followed part one and part two of this series you should now understand the importance of playing a concert pitch B-flat chanter, and the following points summarise the other important aspects covered in the previous features. Your low A sounds […]
Happy New Year and all the best for 2023 to the piping community all over the World! Today we look back to photos from the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green on August 11, 2012. Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1, followed by ScottishPower, Simon Fraser University, Boghall and Bathgate […]
It’s Hogmanay 2022, and this evening we look back ten years to photos from the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton on May 19, 2012. Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1, followed by ScottishPower, Inveraray, Strathclyde Police, St Laurence O’Toole and Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia. Glasgow Skye won Grade 2, […]
The first CLASP competition of 2023 will be an in-person event held at The National Piping Centre’s West End venue at Otago Street, on Saturday January 14. This competition is for adult amateur pipers in Grades 1, 2 and 3 with the option for Grade 4 members to play up […]
By Archibald Campbell. I am provoked to write to the Piping Times in order to correct a statement by “Veritas” in his article in the January number. I did not judge at the Northern Meeting in 1928. I judged in 1927, and George MacLennan (whom a severe illness had left […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. The first part of this feature focused on the basics of setting up your pipe chanter to allow you to tune to concert pitch when playing with other musicians, and to recap the main points: you must have a concert pitch B-flat pipe […]
Today is Christmas Eve and approaching the time of the year for celebration, but also reflection. So today bagpipe.news rewinds 70 years to the December issue of the Piping Times. Looking through that Piping Times edition is a window into times gone by, and to ‘hot topics’ from the early […]
St Columba’s School is inviting applications from enthusiastic and committed teachers of pipe band snare drum to work within the school’s highly popular piping and drumming programme. St Columba’s is situated in the Renfrewshire countryside just 30 minutes from Glasgow. Applicants must have experience working with school pipe bands and […]
The National Piping Centre’s Weekend Piping Club provides small group piping and chanter lessons for under 17 year olds. The classes are offered on a Saturday and a Sunday morning through the school term time in 12 week blocks. The next term starts on Saturday January 7 and runs to […]
