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Theory Top-Up: time signatures

Theory Top-Up: time signatures

By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #95, 2019 I have been teaching private lessons on the pipes and other instruments for close to 30 years now.  Those of you who have done any teaching for a decade or more can understand my experience that every student is unique, and brings a […]

Above and beyond the call of duty: The Mad Piper – David Kirkpatrick

Above and beyond the call of duty: The Mad Piper – David Kirkpatrick

By MARIO TOMASONE. Piping Today #54, 2011. The solemn and complex manoeuvres the troops made on the battlefields of the 18th and 19th centuries were almost inevitably done with pipers playing when Scottish units were involved.  At the turn of the 20th century things changed quite dramatically.  After some early […]

Dan Nevans: there’s life in the old pipes yet – a love story

Dan Nevans: there’s life in the old pipes yet – a love story

“Mind aw they adverts for animal shelters?The ones wi’ wee sad lookin’ dugs an’ that?That’s wit they pipes looked like whenah first clapped eyes on them” Dan Nevans, to anyone who would listen, February 2017 by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #86, 2017. Stop reading this article. You’re not ready. Take five […]

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 jig is a jig

Michael Grey’s Notes: a jig is a jig

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #82, 2016. There was a time when I thought that one of the hardest things I’d ever done in my life was to play Peter MacLeod’s tune Donald MacLean, twice through in the jig final at the Northern Meeting. John Burgess, ever the […]