The Piobaireachd Society has been fortunate in acquiring tapes left by Robert Reid.  We are grateful to his family for permission to publish these.  The tapes have now been digitalised and are available to Piobaireachd Society members. Robert Reid was a pupil of John MacDougall Gillies for 18 years and was a proponent of his style […]

We are restarting our “New Compositions” section.  If you have a new composition you would like to display please send it to secretary@piobaireachd.co.uk in a PDF preferably.  A good quality MP3 can also be sent.

Four unpublished tunes from the Campbell Canntaireachd were played by Patrick Molard at the Piobaireachd Society Conference in 2012.  Members can hear three of these – A Glas  Nameless 16 V1  and White Wedder Black Tail  and see the other presentations at the Conference. Next year’s conference is on the weekend of 23/24 March at Birnam Hotel Dunkeld.

Annual Conference Report 2012 The annual conference was held in the Birnam hotel on 24/25 March. This proved a successful venue – easy transport links, excellent comfort and service, and a splendid conference hall with a high arched ceiling making for a first class pipe acoustic. And pipes were heard frequently – at the CoP […]