Doctor Martin Lowe OBE March Dr Bruce Thomson


© August 2003 by Dr B.E.Thomson PIPING TODAY • 22


AS reported in our last issue, National Piping Centre Board member Dr Martin Lowe sadly passed away in October 2011. To further mark his work for the NPC and the piping world in general we have included this tune which was written for Martin by his friend Dr Bruce Thomson. Bruce fi rst met Martin around 30 years ago through the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and Martin encouraged him to


put forward tunes he had written for competitions. He said: “What a livewire he was and what an infl uence he had in the bagpipe world. Martin was quite extraordinary. “He was one of those people who helped everybody else. He certainly helped me and used to tell me about the various composing competitions.” This tune is due to be published in the next edition of the Scots Guards book.


Doctor Martin Lowe OBE


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Photo: Derek Maxwell


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