Month: July 2023

The pipes that John is playing are between 200-225 years old. The students could not believe how different they sounded to todays pipes.

What a brilliant week we had at the Summer School. Here are a few pictures to prove it. A big thank you goes out to our teaching team for this year, John, Allan, Cameron, our father and son team of Keith Bowes Senior and Junior for all of the hard work they put into making

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) would like to publicly apologise to Field Marshal Montgomery and Inveraray and District Pipe Bands who have been impacted by a compiling error in determining the result of the Grade 1 Best Drumming Prize at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2023 at Dumbarton. Investigations began on the 30th

A special welcome to Steven McWhirter who has joined us on day four of our 2023 “Wake Up, Shake Up Summer School”. Steven spent some time with all of our drumming students, first in the class room he discussed how to develop and execute some key rudiments. Steven presented a master class for all of

Day 2 at the Summer School 2023. The students have been studying music theory, writing basic drum scores and looking at time signatures and note values.

End of day one, pipers and drummers are playing together to put what they have learnt into practice.

Special welcome to Glenn Brown on our first day of the 2023 “Wake Up, Shake Up Summer School”. Glenn spoke to the group about how to make your bagpipe work for you. The below video is Glenn playing a slow air “Sarah’s Song”.

Date set. Venue set. The instruction team is ready to go. Timetable set. Guests in place, and now the final piece, the Workbook. The Workbook we use at the Summer School has received its annual tweak, and we are good to go. The workbook contains all the material, theory and practical, that you need to

“Well! This summer school is looking even better after today. I am so buzzed by this news confirming our two special guest presenters for our week. They are both huge contributors to today’s Piping and Drumming scene.” Glenn Brown is a 39 year old native of Milton, Ontario, Canada. He began playing at the age