As we reported in April, the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) this year marks 40 years since its inception. Founded in 1983 in Glasgow, the organisation is solely responsible for the revival of Scotland’s bellows-blown bagpipes – the instruments played historically mostly in the Lowlands – and of its […]
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The LBPS … looking good at 40
Bagpipe.news and all at The National Piping Centre would like to extend a hearty ‘congratulations’ to the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) on reaching 40 years. It was on this day in 1983 that group of Lowland bellows pipers that had been meeting occasionally at the College of Piping […]
CLASP to retain online comps. / Speyfest returns / RSDG single / Welch initiative / Kingsbury release
The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) intends to add a second league table that will filter points into a new separate online league table for 2022. The CLASP league table will incorporate all competitions (in-person/online) points. Traditionally, the league winners are announced in July each year, but the […]
Harmonics and drone tuning
Do your pipes sound alive with rich harmonics or are you content to have your drones simply ‘in tune’? As someone once put it, the drones ARE the instrument; the chanter an add on. In part 1 of this two-part article, John Dally discusses how your drones, in providing a […]