you’ve got the opportunity to sit round a table and compare notes there is nothing wrong with re- evaluating where you’ve placed a band, especially when you come to the lower grades where there is a sameness about performances and what’s lacking in them.You only have a split second to place them in a merit position. It actually helps to sit and talk to other judges and I’ve done it and thought ‘you know what, I’ve probably hung my hat rather negatively on a bad mistake when in actual fact, in balance, when I hear someone else’s opinion I would probably have reviewed my decision’. I think this is perfectly healthy.There is nothing sinister in it and I think it will come back into pipe band competition adjudication.’ Alan Forbes, Convenor of the
Northern Meeting Piping sub- committee, has taken over from John Wilson as Chairman of the Joint Committee for Judging.
of exercises have been added to the extensive sound files that are embedded with this version of the book. Also embedded are the four tunes in full on the pipes: Company’s Lament, MacIntosh’s Banner, Lament for Alasdair Dearg and Glengarry’s Lament, so there is no need to buy the additional CD that comes with the print version. All in all a pretty comprehensive introduction to ceol mor is provided, and anyone who gets through the book will be ready to buy their Kilberry Book, Binneas or PS Collection. Download the free CoP App from the iTunes store and take a look.
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important position in solo piping.The committee recommends lists of pipers for the main competitions at Oban and Inverness where places hitherto have been limited. Applications for grading need to be submitted to the CPA by the end of the year.
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• Murray Henderson won the inaugural John MacLellan Memorial
Medal held in Edinburgh in October. Competitors had to play a tune by Captain MacLellan.The winning tune was his Edinburgh Piobaireachd. Others who played were Angus Mac- Coll, Farewell to the Queen's Ferry, Roderick MacLeod, Salute to the Great Pipe, and Iain Speirs, Lullaby for Iain.The judge was Major Gavin Stoddart. More than 100 people attended the recital and dinner held in the Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh.
PiobaireachdTutor Now on iPad
HE CoP PiobaireachdTutor,Tutor 4 (or yellow book as it is sometimes called), is now available for iPad and in digital format. New video files
In Brief
AIN Speirs has replaced William McCallum as Chairman of the CPA Grading Committee, an