PIPE MAJORS

He’s the man in the hot seat at Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band so let’s fi nd out more about...................

Duncan Nicholson

DESCRIBE your early band career and how you started piping. My father Donald started teaching me at the age of eight. Dad is very enthusiastic about piping and we would regularly travel to recitals, highland games and competitions to listen to the popular pipers at that time. T ere was an old man who lived in Mallaig called Duncan Gillies who used to play in the old Glasgow Police Pipe Band. We used to go up to Duncan’s house on an occasional Sunday to play a tune and he would regularly talk about his days in the band and how great Seonaidh Roidein was. I thereaſt er went for tuition to P/M Evan MacRae in Fort William. We would travel from

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