Category: Member Spotlights

I heard the bagpipes in Edinburgh and loved the sound and the music. I was hooked from that day, four years ago. I wanted to…

I went to SFU. It turned out that a friend in math class was a member of (the original) Triumph Street Pipe Band (yes, this…

I have always had a little voice in my head when I heard bagpipes playing that said "I want to learn to play the bagpipes…

I was at a conference in Boston in the 1980s and during a break, a pipe band came into the convention center's three-storey atrium and…

When I was a child I would rush to the parade to hear the pipe band. As a teenager I joined the local pipe band…

I always loved the pipes, so when I had the opportunity to get lessons, I jumped on it. I started piping nine years ago. I…

I heard a piper at a funeral once. The sound of the pipes in real life moved me in a way I had not experienced…

Lockdown arrived in March 2020, and life crashed as I was quarantined as an over 65. I needed a challenge, and love the sound of…

I got started in piping in about 2005 when I finally decided to learn. Fortunately, I found a nearby instructor, Colin Gemmel, from whom I…