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The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association says it is disappointed by the BBC's decision not to film the World Pipe Band Championships. The statement centres on the impact for one of piping's biggest events.
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Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Weston of Auckland has taken the New Zealand Young Piper of the Year title, winning the overall Under-21 prize against 12 other competitors.
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The 43rd Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Contest will be held at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Rockville, Maryland, in partnership with the Institute of Musical Traditions. The weekend begins with a judges’ recital on Friday evening, 9 October.
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The Northern Ireland Piper of the Year Solo Piping Competition returns to the Adair Arms Hotel in Ballymena on 10 October, with 10 pipers competing for the 2026 title. The event began in 1979 at the Tullymore House Hotel in Broughshane.
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BBC Scotland has re-confirmed that it has not decided on the World Pipe Band Championships broadcasts, including the free livestream. The timing matches previous years, when broadcast decisions came much closer to the event.
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Ulster Scottish pipe-major Eric Ouellette and lead-drummer Derek Cooper talk about reaching Grade 1 and the challenge of staying there. The conversation focuses on the band’s next steps at the top level.
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Jeannie Campbell MBE says a blind piper, Michael Kazmierski Dunn, got in touch after the new edition of her Highland Bagpipe Makers book was published. The piece is a personal response from Campbell rather than a competition report.
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A second retrospective on Harry McNulty revisits his career as a piper, pipe major, adjudicator and bagpipe maker, drawing on a July 2002 Pipe Band Magazine feature.
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The 10 contestants for the 2026 Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championships at Blair Castle on 31 October are now confirmed. Among the named entrants are Chris Armstrong, Callum Beaumont, Alan Bevan and Willie McCallum.
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The solo piping competitions at Mòd Ghlaschu 2026 are scheduled for 10 October, with junior events at City of Glasgow College and senior events elsewhere. The draw lists name a wide field of pipers across the day.
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A review of A Guide to the Judging of Piping highlights a collection built around forewords, essays and responses from several notable figures in the piping world. The book includes work by Robert Wallace, Dugald Graham-Campbell, Malcolm McRae, James Campbell and Colin MacLellan.
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James Begg is retiring after more than four decades making handmade sheepskin pipe bags through Begg Bagpipes, which he established in Glasgow in 1980. His bags have been used by leading solo pipers and pipe bands.
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