Piping Today is the National Piping Centre’s bi-monthly magazine which seeks to promote the music, history and study of the bagpipes.
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Features from Issue 55 – December 2011 /January 2012
- The Glenfiddich Piping Championship
- Scottish Borders Pipe Band – Grade 4A Champion of Champions
- Peel Regional Police Pipe Band – The power of planning
- Greentrax Recordings Ltd – Embracing piping in all its forms
- MacDougall pipes of John Angus Cameron
- Playing Highland Pipes with other instruments – Part 4
- Stuart Robertson’s Nine Notes with Murray Blair
- Evolution of the Highland Bagpipe within the Musical Traditions of Scotland and Cape Breton – Thesis Summary: Chapter Two
- Grey’s Notes by Michael Grey – Salute to the old-school time shifters
Plus the usual features such as the Youngstars Newsletter…
Additional Online Content
Issue 45 – Mountain Piping – Bagpipes in American old-time music. Click here for additional online content.
As a taster…
You can read these articles that appeared in previous issues of Piping Today:
Terry Tully, SLOT – Patience of the Saints- Tom Speirs – From a deep well of music
- Rory Grossart – The art of reed manipulation
- Drum Sergeant David Ross – NYPBoS Question time
- Issue 53 – Thesis by Benjamin Miller – First part of the full thesis – Front Matter
- Issue 54 – Thesis by Benjamin Miller – Second part of the full thesis – Chapter One
- Issue 55 – Thesis by Benjamin Miller – Bibliography
- Issue 55 – Thesis by Benjamin Miller – Chapter Two
Free Digital Edition – Issue 50
Contact Tracey Williams: twilliams@thepipingcentre.co.uk