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 […]
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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
“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 […]
The story and photos from The Piper and The Maker concert and recording
This article was published in Piping Today magazine in 2004 and featured a concert where all the pipes played in the concert were made by Hamish and Fin Moore. The concert was in Pitlochry Town Hall in 2003 which was recorded by Greentrax and released as an album called The Piper & […]
Michael Grey’s Notes: humblebragging, narcissism, neediness and sanctimony
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #84, 2017. Anyone who uses Facebook will know that from time to time there are interesting bits of information that break through the often unfiltered cringe-making that is the backbone of social media. And so it was last week, smashing through a sea […]
Dan Nevans: developing your musical vision (and nine uses for a pen you never considered)
by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #87, 2017. Scenario One: It’s finally happened, thanks to over population and pollution, Planet Earth is doomed and so you make your way to the nearest space port to hitch a ride to Alpha Centuri. In your rush to escape the heat death of the planet, […]
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
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 […]
Pipe Major Iain McLeod and the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
In 2016 Greentrax Recordings released an album called Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band – Revisited [CDTRAX389]. The tracks were chosen by Pipe Major Iain McLeod as his favourite tunes the band recorded during their heyday. Shortly before the release Andrew Bova visited Iain to conduct an interview for Piping Today […]
Dan Nevans: a guide to constructive critique in an ensemble setting – the language of leadership
by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #94, 2018. I pure love swearing. I started at an early age and have peppered swear words into my day-to-day vocabulary for as long as I can remember. I think it might be something to do with being of Celtic descent: Gaelic has a certain ebb and […]