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It could be the biggest issue of our time: whether or not to place limits on piping band section and/or roster sizes, and two of the world’s foremost authorities on the idiom will go at . . .

Taking another novel approach to the band’s August 14th “Ascension” show at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Inveraray & District is asking its many fans to vote for the competition medley they would prefer to hear on the night. The band has launched an online poll that will run until the half-way point intermission at the concert itself. The band requested that the pipes|drums act as the “main go-to place for voting,” and will also share the poll on its own website and Facebook page. Readers can listen to the medleys via publicly posted videos from competitions . . .

If you were an Australian band of teenaged boys that spent almost a quarter-million-dollars on a trip to compete at a major RSPBA championship, only to find out a month before the date of the . . .

The annual Pipes of Peace concert at the SECC in Glasgow is adding a charitable element to this year’s event on August 15th, working with sponsors R.G. Hardie to raffle a set of Antique Thistle . . .

They haven’t won the World’s. They haven’t won an RSPBA major championship. They haven’t even released a CD as a Grade 1 band. But the Inveraray & District Pipe Band, with little more than . . .

pipes|drums Magazine is pleased to present the third annual free Pipes+Drums recital at the 2013 Piping Live! International Festival of Piping where six of the leaders from three of the world’s best . . .

The Southern United States Pipe Band Association at its annual general meeting on July 13, 2013, decided to close down the organization for good, and distribute all funds in the . . .

The order of play for the World Pipe Band Championship is always anxiously anticipated, but the announcement of the draw and format on July 10th for this year’s contest was . . .

Capitalizing on the appeal of vintage pipes and modern technology, McGillivray Piping has launched a “Victorian” line of three instruments, each manufactured by a separate pipe-maker . . .

Drew Mathieson has stepped down as pipe-major of the Grade 1 Police Scotland Fife Pipe Band and Douglas Murray has taken over. Mathieson cited “time constraints as a result of . . .

The tenth anniversary edition of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival will include a celebratory beer created especially for the event after the festival partnered with . . .

Hugh Cheape and Decker Forrest, two of the world’s preeminent scholars on the MacKays of Raasay, the legendary piping dynasty . . .

The Western United States Pipe Band Association is marking its fiftieth anniversary this year by creating a pipe music collection made up . . .

While bands in the northern hemisphere are in the middle of their competition season, those in New Zealand and Australia are busy making plans for the future and, following Invercargill’s addition . . .

After a global search, Russell Esler of Glasgow has been chosen to be Leading-Drummer of the Grade ILT City of Invercargill . . .