Tag: Archie MacNeill

New Youtube series from the NPC: Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban

New Youtube series from the NPC: Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban

The National Piping Centre have been steadily growing their YouTube content since launching their channel last summer. You will find musical highlights from the Piping Live! festival, tuition videos, world class Glenfiddich Piping competition performances, interviews with Glenfiddich 2022 participants such as Willie McCallum, Fred Morrison and Murray Henderson, and […]

In full flow. The Clasp competition at the 2019  Northern Meeting.

Modern pitch

By Thomas Pearston The photograph of four chanters, below, is a confirmation of the rise in pitch over the past 50 years. Chanter A is a chanter from the First World War, B is about the early 1940s and C is a modern chanter as played to-day. D is a […]