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by Stuart Curnow


Murray Blair


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F you Google “Murray Blair” you would be hard pressed to find more than a few grainy pictures of him.


Actually, there is only one: Victoria Police Pipe Band, Scotland, sometime in the 90s. There are few images of the new product Tunetape, a few of his Highland Bagpipe Tuner — HBT2, a few more of an iPhone app and, of course, the Bagpiper case he designed with Ian Lyons. Scroll down that Google results page and


you see reference to Philharmonic, for many years THE music book for pipe bands wish- ing to invigorate a medley or young dreamers looking to the future of piping.


While this would be gratifying if all he


cared about was a search engine result for his many products, it is more accurately the mark of a rather private individual who shuns gratuitous self-promotion. Because of this he may be well known by few but held in the highest regard by all who know him or have worked with him. His work speaks for itself.


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