Ryan Wang is 18 year old student on the National Piping Centre’s HNC/D piping course and has a busy young life juggling his studies with his commitments to his pipe band, his martial art and working in his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Clydebank. He was born in Glasgow and attended St Saviour’s […]
by SCOTT ARMSTRONG, Auckland, NZ. Pipe Major Neil Campbell McGougan died peacefully at Redwoods Care Home Alness on June 5, 2022 aged 92 years. Campbell was one of kind, with a lifelong involvement and love of piping, its music and people. He was born in Campbeltown where has was taught […]
This photo is from the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton, back on May 16, 2009 when the Scottish was the first major of the season. The first major of 2022 will be the British Championships at Battery Park, Greenock on May 21. Don Bradford was P/M of Strathclyde Police […]
Pitlochry Highland Games, one of the oldest, is launching a composing competition to mark its 170th anniversary in 2022. A spokesman said compositions will be accepted in any time signature but the tune must contain a minimum of four parts. All entries will be judged anonymously by three independent judges […]
By Fergus Muirhead That John Wilson would end up playing the pipes was never in doubt. His father William was a piper in the 8th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. His uncle, Archie, Pipe Major of the 8th Battalion, was killed, like a lot of his colleagues, leading the battalion […]
Following on from the Scottish Pipers’ Association’s (SPA) successful centenary night at The National Piping Centre Otago Street, today we feature an item from the December 1984 Piping Times. Angus J. MacLellan was President of the SPA back then and in that edition of the PT he wrote a report […]
Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, led by pipe major Don Bradford, leave the tuning area at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton in 2009
