This is Johnstone Pipe Band's March, Strathspey and Reel set in the Grade One Competition at the RSPBA's Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in Dumbarton on July 30, 2022.
For the first time here at Dojo U, we recently rallied our students to form Team Dojo – a 'virtual band' made up from Dojo students all…
Andrew Douglas is a prolific practitioner of the bagpipe, active at the highest level of pipe bands, solo competition, teaching, and creative endeavors for the…
When you play a strathspey, does anyone ever tell you that it “sounds like a march”? Is it difficult to get the correct strathspey rhythm, no matter how many times you play through the same tune? One method of learning a strathspey correctly is to use a metronome from the outset, and hear your playing improve.
https://youtu.be/95ThO7WG3RU Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band under Pipe Major Richard Parkes gives the winning performance in the Grade One Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in…
For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.
The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.
Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...
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