THE ARCHIE KENNETH QUAICH COMPETITION The twenty-third annual amateur Piobaireachd competition for the Archie Kenneth Quaich will take place on Saturday, 7th March 2015, in the rooms of The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, 127 Rose Street Lane South, Edinburgh, starting at 10am. Entries and enquiries to Alan Forbes, 24 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BN.   Tel: […]

Here are the set tune notes from the judges’ seminar where the 2nd half of each set tune list was discussed.   Notes on 2014 Senior Tunes  Notes on 2014 Gold Medal Tunes Notes on 2014 Silver Medal Tunes   

Thanks to Paula Glendinning for the recording and score of this, one of the few compositions of John MacDonald of Inverness. He is understood to have used this as a tuning prelude before performing one of the bigger pieces that had predominance of the high G. Nothing is known of the source from which the recording […]

Another successful conference was held March 22/23 in Birnam Hotel.  An excellent venue  – fine weather, beautiful surroundings, near to the heart of Piobaireachd history with the MacGregor’s Glenlyon and John MacIntyre’s Rannoch just up the road.  And local fiddler Neil Gow was being celebrated there the same weekend.  What a rich musical area. The […]