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Niagara Police Pipe Band mourns loss of young piper

The Grade 2 Bucksburn & District of Aberdeen, Scotland, has appointed Scott Niven as its new Leading-Drummer, replacing the departing long-time L-D David . . .

At a time when many bands are threatened by declining numbers and vanishing sponsorship, the new Great Lakes . . .

The sixth annual Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival expects to attract more than 16,000 pipers and drummers and some 50,000 additional . . .

It is the dream of not a few pipe band pipers and drummers to have rock-star status, but the Red Hot . . .

After more than 45 years of playing Premier Percussion instruments, the House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead . . .

The Grade 1 Canterbury Caledonian Pipe Band of New Zealand has secured the services of James Laughlin, a snare-drummer with the Simon . . .

Every time New Zealand’s Grade 1 Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band attends the World Championships every member travels more than 12,000 miles, and . . .

The recently formed Grade 1 North American Pipe Band is joining the ranks of innovative pipe band marketers by conducting a raffle in which one lucky winner will . . .

A new carbon-fibre snare drum that promises a “louder, richer sound” and is 20 per cent lighter than other pipe band snare drums on the market made . . .

It was back in 1997 when 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe-Major Bill Livingstone transferred his piano-playing talent to his pipe band for . . .

Dr. William Donaldson’s ninth Set Tunes Series, an analysis of the piobaireachds assigned by the Piobaireachd Society to pipers competing in the . . .

As the Grade 2 New Westminster Police Pipe Band celebrates its second anniversary as part of the Simon Fraser . . .

The Australian Pipe Band Association has decided to take an open and frank approach to the RSPBA’s decision in February to suspend six . . .

April 18th was the annual general meeting of the Saskatchewan Pipe Band Association, and 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of a pipe band . . .