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I want it to be registered as a Novice from the College and the band
Juvenile band with the RSPBA.This immediately.I am only going to have
is the grade it will compete in but of the band if (1) it is a help for the
course for engagements there can be teaching in the College and (2) it is a
any number of over-age players. credit to the College. You can be
Secondly I want all pipers to have assured that if these conditions are
beentrainedintheCollegeandtobe met the band will have my fullest
currentpupilsintheCollege.Youmay support.’
possibly want some occasional guest A short time previously a
pipers for engagements who are not recording by the Polkemmet band,
Collegepupilsbuttheywouldnotbe ‘From Celtic Roots’had been issued.
true members of the band. I hope Some of the boys in the Wednesday
these conditions are easily accepted class had been heard experimenting
by the committee, and that they with some of the false fingering they
realisethatanywherethebandgoesit had heard on the record.The follow-
represents a forty-two year old ingmorningSeumashadgatheredup
College,notjustanewgroupofpipes allthecopiesoftherecordandhadus
and drums.In this connection I must return them to the supplier.
insist that all tunes in the band’s
repertoire are approved by me, and
that no tunes outside of the approved
Wanted: Old pair piper’s shoe
list are ever played by the band. In
buckles made of heavy cast metal,
particular we must have no Breton embossed with thistle design and
tunes,no false fingering,no glissades
round scrolled edges. They measure
and none of the rubbish which the
about 4.5 x 5.6cm and are slightly
Polkemmet band plays.For our band
to indulge in this stuff would do the
curved. I will pay a good price for
College immeasurable harm. It must
them provided they are in a good
be a rule that anybody playing or
condition. Send pictures to
teaching such stuff will be expelled
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THE ISLE OF
presents
SKYE
the 43
PIPING
rd annual
SOCIETY
SILVER CHA
at Du
NTER
nvegan
CO
Castl
MPETITION
e.
Tickets
Wednesday
cost £17.50 and
5th
are
August
available from
at
Mrs
7.30pm.
Sheila Beaton,
Pipers for the evening wil
01470
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592212
Stuart Liddell, Roderick MacLeod,
William
Niall
Ged
Stewart,
des, Jonathan
P/MGordon
Greenless,
Walker
Sponsored by William Grant & Sons.
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