Tag: Grey’s Notes

Michael Grey’s Notes: the best I ever played

Michael Grey’s Notes: the best I ever played

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #83, 2016. When I first starting competing in Scotland and going around the competitions, there was no shortage of fun to go along with the games. Like today, only it seems to me that then there were more eccentric, larger-than-life types around the […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: a magical winter week in Glasgow

Michael Grey’s Notes: a magical winter week in Glasgow

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #79, 2016. I once read something somewhere about the spiritual power of making music in a group. The words I recall spoke to group music creation in a sacred sort of way. Making music with others joined energy and life forces and, well, […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: the gift that keeps giving

Michael Grey’s Notes: the gift that keeps giving

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #78, 2015/16  These days we hear more and more about “ground-breaking” studies trumpeting the health benefits of one thing or another. News in tandem equally pronounces the many things that are seemingly bad for us. One day it’s a daily glass or two […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #74, 2015. My Dad always said that life moves forward at a pace in tandem with a person’s age.  So when you’re 10, life seems to move along at a grindingly slow 10mph. At 10 a kid feels like it’ll take forever for […]