Tag: pipe band circle

Fifty year-old editorial on conducting a pipe band

Fifty year-old editorial on conducting a pipe band

Every so often we hear suggestions about opening the pipe band competition circle to make it more audience friendly. This Piping Times editorial from Seumas MacNeill shows it was being discussed 50 years ago along with an even more radical suggestion of adding a conductor to the performance! By SEUMAS […]

Simon Fraser University competing at the 2018 World Pipe Band Championships.

Variation in pipe band competition results and difficulties of change

By Alistair Aitken OBE Differences in pipe band competition results have always been a problem and probably always will be. It is an issue being addressed continually in adjudicator training as human nature tends to immediately focus minds on the credibility of the adjudication process and the abilities of the […]