North American Piobaireachd Society

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I remember seeing a sound film clip of an interview with Daniel Laidlaw, VC in a video in which he is asked to play "Blue Bonnets Over the Border"...

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I have a wooden Naill chanter (bought in 1989 or 1990) and its pitch is Bb...a tonal match for the plastic McCallum Bb chanter that I bought a few years...

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[I thought “Orkney Wedding…” called for a concert A chanter???]

It does. Initially I used a heavily taped Hardie chanter...

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I remember PM Norman Gillies suggesting use of the light D Throw for both Ceol Beag and Ceol Mor ... in effect killing two birds with one throw.

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Hi, What chanters do you have? I used a 1989 Naill BW chanter with a chamber orchestra around 1998 without having to tape the chanter to play in B-flat...

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Hi,

Just saw on The Piping Press that something called The North American Piobaireachd Society has been incorporated in California. Anyone...

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Years ago at a Balmoral session in suburban Chicago, I was tasked to play reveille one morning. Later in the day in my group's lesson with Alasdair Gillies,...

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Re: Selbie tenor drone question





No. I play an Inveran chanter (2012?) in the ABW for solo stuff and an Apps...

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Re: Selbie tenor drone question

Hi everybody,

Thanks for the input. I installed Selbie tenors today on my ABW set. Not sure...

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Hi,

I recently put a set of Selbie tenor reeds in my set of MacCallum APO pipes. The reeds work very well. I like the tone and really don't...

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Re: Riding on a Hand Car

Thanks for the info.

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Hi, Last month I was given a copy of the 2 part jig "Riding on a Hand Car". Has anyone else run across it? The copy says it was part of a jig...

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Re: Tunes from the 2nd World War



Drum Major Robert Bruce was captured in Singapore during the Japanese assault on Malaya...

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I read an article in Rob Wallace's "Piping Press" last week that the long running "Piping Times" (published monthly for 70 years)...

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Re: Your first piobaireachd and who taught you it

I don't remember what my first piobaireachd was, but it was from a copy of Angus MacKay's...