Week of Study and Friendship at College at PipingWinter School
DIRK-BORIS RÖDEL
and for the second time it took place in a youth hostel in the town of Homburg in the southwest of the country. The term youth hostel however is misleading as you might think of a rather basic, if not primitive location; but the youth hostel in Homburg can easily keep up with the standards of good middle range hotels.The extraordinary architecture almost reminds me of a huge, modern, high-class version of an ancient Scottish broch with a big atrium in the centre where students and teachers met in the evening for a glass of German beer or Irish Guinness. Apart from comfortable guest rooms the modern building also has many conference and meeting rooms which make perfect teaching rooms for the different drum and piping classes. Responsible for the organisation of the one week school for approxima-tely 75 pipers, drummers and drum-majors from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and of course Germany,was German CoP representative Susy Klinger. She did a great job. The list of teachers was really
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impressive: Billy Jordan, Jim Clark and Carol Ritchie taught drummers and drum majors; the pipers received lessons from Thomas Schalla, Willie
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HE 6th CoPWinter School in Germany was held from February 19th until 26th 2012
Vaclav Rout with the Joe Wilson MemorialTrophy for most promising student
Park, Jim Semple, Bill Geddes and Barry Donaldson. Robert Wallace offered a special course in ceol mor for anyone who was interested, no matter if someone just wanted to learn his very first piobaireachd or had the intention of brushing up the special embellishments or refining his expression and general understanding of this kind of pipe music. Barry and Robert pointed out
right from the beginning that it was the goal of the CoP Winter School that each and every student should return home after one week as a