Tag: Alan Forbes

Arran King wins the Archie Kenneth Quaich 2024

Arran King wins the Archie Kenneth Quaich 2024

The Archie Kenneth Quaich 2024 was held in the rooms of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society on Saturday February 24, and the winner was Arran King. A large entry of 38 was reduced to 25 by ballot, and 21 played on the day. The judges were Ronald McShannon and Finlay Johnston. […]

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

The National Piping Centre is constantly adding top quality new content to YouTube. Most recently there have been interviews with Katie Robertson (The Wheeled Piper), former member of The National Piping Center Board of Directors, Alan Forbes, and energetic pipes and whistles exponent Ali Levack. The most recent offering in […]

Somerled MacDonald’s antique prize chanter

Somerled MacDonald’s antique prize chanter

Bagpipe.news was recently contacted by Clive Douglas after reading our article written by Alan Forbes on Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, which can be found here. Clive spotted the name of Somerled MacDonald in the article, and he thought he should share photos of a prize chanter which he owns which […]