Author: Jack Taylor
A manuscript of 79 Piobaireachd written by John Smith (1840-1877) given to the Piobaireachd Society in 1928 has now been added to the website. In contains some tunes not published elsewhere, such as the Brothers Lament, and many settings not heard today. Hiharins are written several ways, taorluaths are written with the “redundant” A, and crunluaths […]
Author: Jack Taylor
Thank you to Robert Wallace, Piobaireachd Society Vice President, for this report about the Annual Conference which took place in Birnam Hotel Dunkeld at the weekend. The full details will be recorded in the Conference Proceedings in due course.
Author: Jack Taylor
Archie Kenneth Quaich 2015 The 23rd annual Archie Kenneth Quaich competition for amateur piobaireachd players was held in the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society rooms in Edinburgh on Saturday 7 March. The competition is sponsored by the Piobaireachd Society. The Archie Kenneth Quaich was won, for the third time, by Tom Peterkin from Edinburgh, who played […]
Author: Jack Taylor
Thanks to Matt Turnbull for sending these compositions, one of which is an arrangement of that great Piobaireachd Lament for Ronald MacDonald of Morar. The Widower’s Sorrow For my teacher Willie Connell on the passing of his wife Betty The Salute to the Margeiting On the loss of the ship the Margeiting off the coast of Brittany […]