The winner was the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band from Northern Ireland. The Irish pipers took first place in all three sections of the competition — march, strathspey and reel and medley, The Scotsman reported.Two Canadian bands, the Simon Fraser University Band and the Scottish Lion 78th Fraser Highlanders, came in second and third.
An estimated 8,000 pipers and drummers, playing in more than 200 bands from as far away as Pakistan, came to Glasgow Green for the world’s top piping competition.
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