Glasgow City

Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for School Pipe Bands

The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for School Pipe Bands and Individual Pipers and Drummers will take place at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, 21 Beaton Road, Glasgow, G41 4NW on SUNDAY 23rd FEBRUARY 2025 at 10.30am. …

Sun, Feb 23, 2025

World Pipe Band Championships 2025

The Worlds is one of the most anticipated events on Glasgow’s cultural calendar. …

Fri, Aug 15, 2025

CLASP NPC, McPhater Street, ‘In Person’ Competition March 1, 2025

This CLASP competition will run, on Saturday 1st March 2025, in-person at The National Piping Centre, McPhater Street, Glasgow. …

Sat, Mar 1, 2025

the chanter shop

We sell an extensive range of bagpipe practice chanters in addition to hemp, reeds, and piping tutors, one of which is now available on CD format …

fred morrison bagpipes

Fred Morrison was born and raised near Glasgow, but it’s the celebrated Gaelic piping tradition of his father’s native South Uist, in the outer Hebrides, that forms the bedrock of his intensely expressive, uniquely adventurous style. His outstanding technical prowess saw him winning many top competition prizes while still at school, meanwhile being inspired by pioneering acts like the Bothy Band and the Tannahill Weavers. …

Anordain Watches

Based in Glasgow’s Templeton Building, our multidisciplinary team of designers and makers oversee all elements of our watches, from design, to manufacture and assembly. …

boghall and bathgate caledonia pipe band

In 1972 a group of Boghall residents including Bob Austin (the band’s first president), James Galloway (the local butchery manager) and Minnie Waddell met to discuss the possibilities of forming a local pipe band. Shortly afterwards they formed the first committee of the band with other members including Mr & Mrs J Latta, Mr & Mrs I MacKay and Mr & Mrs I Reid. The committee then recruited their first pipe major, Bobby Allan, a former piper with Torphichen & Bathgate Pipe Band who resided in Boghall. They subsequently advertised in the local Courier paper looking for children to ……

RSPBA

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association was founded in 1930 as a governing body to oversee pipe band competition and to promote and encourage the development of pipe band culture throughout the world. The RSPBA sets the rules and guidelines for pipe band contests that take place in Scotland, administers the events themselves, coordinating adjudication, logistics and evaluation, and holds Annual General Meetings to ensure that the rules and regulations are up to date. …

police scotland & federation pipe band

​ In June 2021 the Police Scotland and Federation Pipe band was formed. The band has evolved from famous legacy Police Force Pipe Bands to create a band that represents Police Scotland. These legacy pipe bands include Central Scotland Police Pipe Band, Dumfries and Galloway Pipe Band, Dundee Police and Tayside Police Pipe Band, Edinburgh Police and Lothian and Borders Police Pipe Band, Glasgow Police and Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. …

competing pipers association

It also serves as the only grading organisation for pipers, with competitions such as The Northern Meeting and The Argyllshire Gathering using CPA grades as their criteria for entry requirement. …

Roderick Deans

Roderick has been playing the bagpipes for 17 years, competing as well as entertaining …

Iain Melvin

Established in 1996 as a full-time and professional business, making Piping Services Scotland the experienced option to provide your top quality piper …

the national piping centre

Patron HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, KG, KT, GCB. Founders: Sir Brian Ivory CVO, CBE, FRSE, FRSA, MA, CA - Lady Ivory, DL - Sandy Grant Gordon, CBE …

milngavie pipe band

We are based to the North of Glasgow, in central Scotland. We now have a Grade 3a, a grade 4a and a Novice juvenile’s band. …

begg bagpipes

As someone who has spent well over 30 years years making and selling pipe bags to the worlds top solo pipers and pipe bands I am often asked my opinion on piping products in general and in particular pipe bags. So as there seems to be a lot of mystery about it I thought I would try to explain a little bit about pipe bags firstly. As time goes on other subjects of piping interest can be tackled. …

r . g. hardie & co.

R. G. Hardie & Co. is a premium-quality bagpipe maker based in the heart of Glasgow, Scotland. The company is led by Alastair Dunn, double Gold Medalist and former Pipe Sergeant of 12-time World Champions, the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band. Alastair worked with Duncan Campbell, a craftsman with R. G. Hardie & Co since 1962, to modernise and develop the current range of bagpipes, chanters and the extensive range of accessories. …

k m bagpipes

Selling reedmaking items, please see the uilleann bagpipe reedmaking page …

Duncan Johnstone Memorial Competition

An annual solo piping competition for B and C graded pipers, held at The National Piping Centre. …

Sat, Mar 22, 2025

European Pipe Band Championships 2025

A significant event in the pipe band calendar, attracting over 120 bands from around the world to compete in various grades. …

Sat, Aug 9, 2025

United Kingdom Pipe Band Championships 2025

A major championship event organized by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, featuring top pipe bands from across the UK. …

Sat, Jul 12, 2025

World Pipe Band Championships 2025

The premier global pipe band competition, attracting bands from around the world to compete in various grades. …

Fri, Aug 15, 2025

roddy mac leod piobaireachd

Roddy MacLeod MBE, Glasgow, Scotland is considered to be one of the most accomplished pipers of his generation and a highly regarded teacher, recitalist and adjudicator ( see Services). Uniquely, he is a Grade 1 Championship winning Pipe Major and a five time Glenfiddich World Solo Piping Champion and in 2012 he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Awards Hall of Fame (see Profile). …

european drum major

This site is aimed at Drum Majors worldwide from all bands and I hope that you will all want to contribute to it. There is deliberately no forum or chat room, because these generally revert to gossip, rumour, etc. and that is not what this site is for. I am aiming to solve all the questions I get asked from around the world and produce a sensible, useful site for you all to use and enjoy. By the way the picture is a ‘sketch’ done from some of the DMs at the Edinburgh Tattoo, a Salute to Australia. …