An interesting collection of pipe tunes specifically set for duets of smallpipes and Border pipes has just been published. Airs for Piping Pairs has just been published by Matt Seattle, the well known Border piper from Hawick, Scotland. The book is pubilshed under his Dragonfly Music imprint. Matt is well […]
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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 […]
Donald W. G. Lindsay: Piping on another planet, part 2
In my first ‘Piping on Another Planet’ blog back in February, I gave a brief introduction to Ascension Island and discussed some of mine and my son, Ryall’s plans for the recording of our album, Mars Bay, a collection of themes developed from field recordings of the island’s sea birds, […]
Stuart Letford: To the Lords of Convention
By Stuart Letford It was Jack Campin who years ago quipped that the only place you’ll ever see a well-dressed Border piper is on an undertaker’s slab. Since its inception in the early 1980s, the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) has been the organisation responsible for the revival of […]