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Jul
22
2008
 
Brand New Website! Piping LivePosted by: Pipe Major in Competition, Concert, Contest, News Piping Live! has a brand new website for 2008. It is now fully operational with all sorts of fun gizmos and gadgets added in! Check it out! CLASP, Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers will run the annual ‘World Solo Amateur Piping Championships’ on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th of August in the RSAMD (5min walk from National Piping Centre). Thursday will have light Music and Piobaireachd events for Grade 3 and Grade 2. Grade 1 will be held on Friday. The overall winner of the Grade 1 competition on the 15th August will win an all expenses paid trip to New York to compete at the Metro Cup. This trip is kindly sponsored by Eric and Maureen Stein. This competition is for over 18’s only. For overseas players there is an option of a one day membership for £20. This covers all entry fees. To sign up for this option please email mhoulihan@thepipingcentre.co.uk
 One of the biggest obstacles for many learner pipers is making the transition from practice chanter to pipes. This is because of the many new techniques that need to mastered, such as blowing technique, getting used to the bag and drones, building stamina, tuning, learning how to maintain and care for the instrument, and reed manipulation.
This book follows the step-by-step approach of The Highland Bagpipe Tutor Book 1 and each skill is taught in a logical, progressive manner using tried and tested methods gleaned from the combined experience of the teaching staff at The National Piping Centre.
In the Key of A, asking $750 Morpeth Herald - Morpeth Chantry leaps up tourism charts “But 21 years ago this week Castle Morpeth Council turned it into an arts and crafts venue and now it also houses a Bagpipe Museum and Tourist Information Centre.”
“Dressed in white shirts, tartan kilts, spats and horsehair sporons, the bagpipe and drum players of the Washington, D.C., Fire Department Emerald Pipes and Drums Society performed for Danville, a treat made possible by a $5,000 grant obtained by state Rep. Robert Belfanti.” This video was a joke but Nintendo, as per a Game Spot Article, is releasing “Wii Music” That will feature a bagpipe instrument but pressing 1 and 2 buttons while holding the remote upright.
Jul
21
2008
Blackwatch soldier brings his bagpipes to local areas in Scotland after spell in warzonePosted by: Pipe Major in NewsIT was just after dawn on the Jurf al-Sukhr Bridge in Iraq’s Triangle of Death, when Pipe Major Scott Taylor played a tribute for his fallen BlackWatch comrades. Three days earlier, three soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter had been killed by a car bomb just north of Baghdad. One of them was 19-year-old bandmate Paul Lowe.
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| June 15-20, 2008 SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, Rohnert Park, CA
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| June 22-27, 2008 North Central College, Naperville, IL (near Chicago, IL)
and another piping instructor TBADrumming: Graham Brown |
| Week 1: July 13-18 - Week 2: July 20-25, 2008 EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY, East Stroudsburg, PA |
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The bagpipes, like tartan, the thistle and the Loch Ness Monster, are a symbol of Scotland - but it seems they are becoming the must-have item for city internet surfers.
Figures show that city-based Ebay shoppers spent £2,661 on bagpipes in the past year, even more than Scots north of the border, but then the statistics are not that surprising given that Norwich has its own pipe band.
The City of Norwich Pipe Band has been bringing the sound of Scotland to East Anglia since 1974, when it was formed, and will be in action during the Lord Mayor’s procession on Saturday.
John Welton, club secretary of the band, who has been playing the bagpipes for 39 years after learning as a 16-year-old in the RAF, said the pipes offered something different to people in Norwich.
He said: “We do get a very good reception, particularly at the Lord Mayor’s procession. We’re always pretty popular when we take part and get people coming up and chatting.
He stands ramrod straight, his cheek bulging out as if part of the bagpipe he plays. But in his mind, Evan Stewart is going places as he busks on Ste. Catherine and Peel Sts.
For starters, there’s a trip he hopes to take to Glasgow, Scotland, next month to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships. The coins drop often as he fills the epicentre of multi-ethnic and French Montreal with that most Celtic of sounds, so it may just happen.
“People know (the bagpipe is) hard to play and a lot of people seem impressed,” says the 21-year-old recent graduate of McGill University’s kinesiology program.
View the video from MSNBC of Bagpiper.Com’s Norm Weaver playing at the funeral service of Tim Russett.
Norm can be contacted at http://va-md.bagpiper.com or at nweaver@erols.com and Home Phone: 703-594-3755 or Cell Phone: 703-577-8782
Bill Hedworth 9 key Northumbrian Pipes for sale on the Bagpiper.Com Classifieds
$1600.00
Competition celebrates tenth anniversary of National Piping Centre
The skirl of the bagpipes is either music to the ears or a heart-sinkingly tedious screech. And the range of bagpipe tunes heard on street corners or played by marching bands can be so repetitious that most Scots know every note of Highland Cathedral, Scotland the Brave and Amazing Grace.
To remedy this, the National Piping Centre will celebrate its tenth anniversary today by introducing its answer to the Eurovision Song Contest to find new classic bagpipe tunes.
It hopes that its international search will produce a tune to march, dance or even punch the air to as the national side notches up yet another stirring triumph.
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The mournful music can be heard while traveling down East Market Street and rounding the corner of North Kenton Street. The sorrowful notes eventually round back to the Urbana Fire Division in the municipal building, where two firefighters are diligently trying to master the art of the bagpipe.
Eric Beverly and Brian Williams are flushed, drenched in perspiration and attempting what seems to be impossible on this Monday - tuning the bagpipe. Beverly eventually gives up and shrugs his shoulder.
“If it’s not making my ears bleed, it’s not too bad,” he said.
The two are currently the only two firefighters in the Urbana Fire Division who are all too familiar with the stubborn instrument. The bagpipe has been a tradition for centuries for fire departments and service personnel and Beverly and Williams picked up the skill about five years ago, with the intent of continuing the custom.
A REPORT on buying and selling trends on internet site eBay has thrown up a few regional surprises.
People in Aberdeen forked out £1.3million on clothes in the past year - the second highest total in the UK.
The city’s residents also have a keen interest in philately, with £35,851 spent on stamp collections.
And they wound up spending £7000 on cuckoo clocks, the most in Scotland.
The website’s eBaynomics Report 2007-8 also revealed that bagpipe merchants in Edinburgh sold almost £10,000 worth instruments, the most in Britain.
Strangely, buyers in Norwich snapped up more bagpipes than anywhere else.
Posh punters in Edinburgh spent a whopping £285,000 on antiques, the most in the UK, and £6700 on chandeliers.
Glaswegians, meanwhile, spent the most on cars - £4.7million.
And the city’s women spent nearly £40,000 on hair removal products.
The report also revealed Scots were selling almost as much as they spend.
A spokeswoman said: “It’s clear Scots have found the key to beating the credit crunch.”
The family that plays together stays together. Members of Allentown’s Owens family are closer than ever since they started sharing their passions for music.
Their collective talents and dedication over the years have most recently culminated in Dale Owens and his daughter, Taylor, 13, playing the bagpipes in the Trenton Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) Pipe Band, while Maggie, 16, helps keep beat in the drum section and Pam keeps time as drum major.
Dale, a South Brunswick police officer, first took interest in the bagpipes when he saw them played during Police Memorial Week in Washington, D.C., where officials from all over the country gather annually to honor fallen officers. Upon hearing the droning instrument and the emotion it evokes, Dale vowed to learn how to play the pipes by the age of 40.
Although he started taking lessons on a chanter under the direction of Frank Watson in 2000, Dale stopped pursuing his dream when his mother suddenly took ill and passed away. At that time, he wasn’t sure he would ever take up the bagpipes again. However, after a year passed, he realized that learning the pipes was something that his mom had always encouraged him to do. So, he picked up the chanter again and ultimately purchased his first set of bagpipes at the age of 43 in 2003.
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