The National Piping Centre created the What’s in a Tune series on their YouTube channel just over one month ago, and have since added seven videos to the series. The tunes offered so far have been a mix of classic tunes and lesser known tunes, and all well worth a […]
by BILL LIVINGSTONE. Piping Today #100, 2020. The ability to compose music, any music, for the bagpipe or otherwise is a peculiar talent and very difficult to describe or define. We know what the results of the effort are, but not much is known about the process itself. Everyone has […]
By Pipe Major Jim Henderson John McLellan, as I remember him, was a very shy and quiet individual, not given to pushing himself or promoting the great talent he possessed. Besides being a quite outstanding bagpipe music composer, he wrote songs, was a poet of some distinction and had a […]
