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The results of the Archie Kenneth Quaich which took place in the Royal Scottish Piper’s Society Rooms on 3rd March 2012 are as follows 1. John Frater The Old Men of the Shells 2. Tom Peterkin Salute to Donald 3. Eric McKimmon Lady Doyle’s Salute 4. Con Houlihan Lament for the Viscount of Dundee 5. Alan Forbes […]
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Conference Report 2011 It was another good conference by all accounts with a good mix of talk and tunes. It might have been subtitled MacDonald as there was much reference to John and Donald. The COP lecture was given on Friday evening by Piobaireachd Society President Jack Taylor who talked about the future of Ceol […]
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The Piobaireachd Society is pleased to announce the publication of Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Piobaireachd Volume 2, manuscript (1826), by Roderick Cannon and Keith Sanger. It is available price £30 from the Piping Centre and the College of Piping. Volume 1, Donald MacDonald’s book of Piobaireachd is still available price £20. The price for both books is […]
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A successful event was held on 12 July in Inverallan Cemetery Grantown on Spey to mark 100 years since the death of General Charles Thomason. General Thomason was the author of the biggest ever collection of Piobaireachd, Ceol Mor, published in 1900. It was the first collection to lay out piobaireachd systematically and to use […]