• Where are you from and how did you get into piping?I’m from Columbus, Ohio, USA. I was five years old in a park when I first heard a piper. I sat and listened to him for what seamed like forever. When my mother found me I told her I […]
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Dr. Peter Cooke, 1930-2021 / Pipe Major Anthony James Crease BEM, 1948-2021
Dr. Peter Cooke, the highly respected ethnomusicologist, has died. He was 90. Peter was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1930. His music teaching career began in secondary schools and as a lecturer at Redland College of Education in Bristol. He moved to Uganda in 1964 to work as head of […]
Tattoo groupies and John MacLellan’s burst bag
• From the October 2000 Piping Times. By David Murray With the Edinburgh Tattoo season over for yet another year, it seems to me that it’s a good time to ponder a little on the now accepted arrangements for band, pipes and drums, not to mention the choir, which are […]
