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SUMMARY:The Weekend Piping Club
DESCRIPTION:The Weekend Piping Club is a fantastic learning place for new players and those that already play. Aimed at young people aged 17 & under\, classes are taught in small groups here at The National Piping Centre in McPhater Street. There are three levels\, all of which will run for 12 weeks with the Glasgow schools term dates. \nThe Weekend Piping Club will take place on Saturdays. \nThe dates for 2023 Autumn term is Saturday 2nd September – Saturday 16th December \nBOOK YOUR PLACE NOW \nYou can sign up now for the following levels: \nComplete Beginners* Aged 17&U\nTime: 11am-12noon (1 hour class)\nCost £80 for 12 weeks on either Saturday or Sunday\nCourse content: introductory exercises and demonstrations\, taught by ear using TNPC Tutorbook. \n*Please note: practice chanters and books can be purchased from the Bagpipe Shop in-person or online \nBeginners Aged 17&U\nTime: 10am – 11am (1 hour class)\nCost £80 for 12 weeks on either Saturday or Sunday\nCourse content: Those that can play scale and one or two grace notes\, including those who have taken our complete beginners course.\nPlease note: You do not need to have done our complete beginners course in order to join at this level. \nPipers (Aged 17&U)\nTime: 10am-12 noon (2 hour class)\nCost: £120 for 12 weeks on either Saturday or Sunday\nCourse content: This course will focus on Technique\, Repertoire & Performance Practice \nThe teachers for Autumn/Winter term will be Robyn McKay\, Ben Muir\, Ceitidh NicDhòmhnaill and Ailis Sutherland. \nBOOK YOUR PLACE NOW \nFor more information please contact: asutherland@thepipingcentre.co.uk \n \n•Tutor Ailis Sutherland chatting with some of the young members of the Weekend Piping Club.
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LOCATION:The National Piping Centre
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SUMMARY:40th Nicol-Brown solo piping competition
DESCRIPTION:The 40th Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Contest will be held at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Rockville\, Maryland\, hosted in partnership for the first time with the Institute of Musical Traditions. The weekend will begin with a judges’ recital on Friday evening\, October 6\, followed by the contest and award ceremony on Saturday\, October 7. Save the dates and watch this space for details. \nJudges’ Recital\nFriday\, October 6\, 2023 at 7:30 pm Eastern Time\nSt. Mark Presbyterian Church\n10701 Old Georgetown Road\nRockville\, Maryland \nThe 2023 Nicol-Brown Judges:\nDr. Jack Taylor (Aboyne\, Scotland)\nNick Hudson (Houston\, Texas)\nAmy Garson (Ottawa\, Ontario) \n \nThe 2021 video concert remains available on YouTube\, presented as a benefit for the continuing mission of encouraging amateur piping. The Nicol-Brown committee is tremendously grateful to the 2021 judging panel—Roddy MacLeod\, MBE\, Bob Worrall\, Jenny Hazzard\, and Nick Hudson—for their generosity in sharing their talents with all of us. \nDonations to the Nicol-Brown are always welcome.
URL:https://dev.bagpipe.news/event/the-40th-nicol-brown-solo-piping-competition/
LOCATION:St Mark Presbyterian Church\, 10701 Old Georgetown Road\, North Bethesda\, MD\, MD 20852
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paula Glendinning":MAILTO:glenpaula@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Capt John A MacLellan Solo Piping Championships 2023
DESCRIPTION:•Pictured from left: Director of Army Bagpipe Music Maj Gordon Rowan MBE\, Ross Conner\, Cameron May\, Steven Gray\, Bobby Allen\, Jamie Elder\, Matt Wilson\, Stuart Liddell\, Sarah Muir\, John Dew\, Andrew Ferguson and Colin MacLellan in 2022. \nHeld at Inchdrewer House within Redford Barracks\, this event features some of the best solo pipers in the country\, with separate Piobaireachd and Light Music events in P\, A\, B and C grades and a Hornpipe & Jig contest open to all competitors. Spectators are very welcome.  \nThe 2022 results were:\n\nPremier Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nFinlay Johnston\nIain Speirs\nCallum Beaumont\nStuart Liddell\nGlenn Brown\n\n\n\n\nPremier MSR\n\n\n\n\nStuart Liddell\nCalum Beaumont\nIain Speirs\nGlenn Brown\nFinlay Johnston\n\n\n\n\nA Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nSarah Muir\nSteven Leask\nCameron Macdougall\nInnes Smith\nAndrew Donlon\n\n\n\n\nA Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nSteven Gray\nMatt Wilson\nGreig Canning\nAshley McMichael\nPeter Macgregor\n\n\n\n\nB Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nJamie Elder\nJohn Dew\nBradley Parker\nBrodie Watson-Massey\nCallum Wynd\n\n\n\n\nB Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Ferguson\nRoss Miller\nCallum Wynd\nAngus Macphee\nAndrew Donlon\n\n\n\n\nC Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nBobby Allen\nCameron May\nJames McPetrie\nChristopher McLeish\nBruce Erskine\n\n\n\n\nC Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nRoss Conner\nBobby Allen\nRyan Cupples-Menendez\nCameron May\nJohn McElmurry\n\n\n\n\nOpen Hornpipe & Jig\n\n\n\n\nMatt Wilson\nBobby Allen\nSarah Muir\nStuart Liddell\nCalum Brown
URL:https://dev.bagpipe.news/event/capt-john-a-maclellan-solo-piping-championships/
LOCATION:Army School of Piping\, Inchdrewer House\, 299 Colinton Road\, Edinburgh\, EH13 0LA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Stirling Piping Recital with Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong
DESCRIPTION:The Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong recital is in the King Robert Hotel\, Bannockburn\, Stirling. The event is on Friday\, October 13\, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. \nThe Stirling Piping Recitals are organised by Craig Muirhead to bring the pipers of the Stirling area together and help create a local piping scene. This is the second event of 2023 with the February recital featuring Roddy MacLeod and Willie McCallum. \nThe venue is at King Robert Hotel\, Glasgow Road\, Stirling\, FK7 0LJ. T: 01786 811666 https://www.kingroberthotel.co.uk/
URL:https://dev.bagpipe.news/event/stirling-piping-recital-with-fred-morrison-and-chris-armstrong/
LOCATION:King Robert Hotel\, Glasgow Road\, Stirling\, FK7 0LJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lochnell Intermediate Youth Championship
DESCRIPTION:The Argyllshire Gathering Trust’s Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship will take place on Saturday\, 21 October.  As before\, the venue is the chapel at Lochnell Castle\, Argyll\, by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochrane. \nThe competition is by invitation only and features Scotland’s finest pipers aged under 22: Ruairidh Brown (2023 Champion)\, Andrew Ferguson (2023 Piob. winner)\, Luke Kennedy (CPA Bronze Medal 2023)\, Gregor MacDonald (3rd MacGregor)\, Cameron May (3rd NM Silver Medal)\, Brodie Watson-Massey (5th AG Silver Medal)\, Bobby Allan (multiple B grade prizes including 2nd place at the Argyllshire Gathering 2023 Strathspey & Reel in a tough international field)\, and all the way from Australia\, Liam Nicholson (MacGregor finalist). \nPipers compete in Piobaireachd and March\, Strathspey and Reel\, four tunes of each asked for. The 2023 judges are P/M Jimmy Banks MBE\, P/Sgt Alasdair Henderson of Inveraray Pipe Band and John Wilson. Fear an Tighe is Robert Wallace\, President of the Piobaireachd Society. \nThere are four prizes in each event: £120\, £80\, £60\, £40. There are trophies for each section of the Championship\, the Jimmy McIntosh MBE Memorial Trophy for Piobaireachd was presented last year by Mrs Joyce McIntosh. The trophy for the MSR is presented by McCallum Bagpipes in memory of Mr Willie McCallum Snr.\, Campbeltown\, a man who dedicated his life to promoting piping in his native town and in wider Argyll. In addition to these trophies the Champion Piper with most points in both disciplines receives a trophy and a Bronze Star presented by the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society. \nCompetition organiser Torquil Telfer said: “We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to Lochnell for the second annual Intermediate Youth Championship. \nThis competition fills a gap in the calendar for the young aspiring professional piper and encourages them on to even greater effort and success. The venue is perfect for both pipers and audience alike.” \nThe promoters would like to thank sponsors Alik Campbell\, the Duncan Louis Stewart Foundation\, Andrew Holman\, the Piobaireachd Society and the Royal Scottish Pipers Society. For more information about the Argyllshire Gathering Trust please email argyllshiregatheringtrust@gmail.com.
URL:https://dev.bagpipe.news/event/lochnell-intermediate-youth-championship/
LOCATION:Lochnell Castle\, Benderloch\, Argyll\, PA371QT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2022
DESCRIPTION:•2022 winners Callum Beaumont and Willie McCallum. Photo by Derek Maxwell \nThe Glenfiddich Piping Championship is set to celebrate its 50th edition at the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday 28th October 2023\, with tickets on sale now. \nTen of the world’s greatest solo pipers\, chosen from a list of qualifying events\, will compete in the prestigious Championship\, which was first held in 1974. The international event was established to inspire the world’s finest exponents of Ceòl Mòr or Piobaireachd (the great music) and Ceòl Beag or light music (the little music). \nRun by The National Piping Centre\, the world centre for excellence in bagpipe music\, and funded through the William Grant Foundation\, the event is held annually in Perthshire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year’s competitors and judges will be announced in September\, once all the qualifying events have been completed. The successful pipers will play in both the Piobaireachd and March\, Strathspey and Reel disciplines\, with prizes awarded for each discipline\, as well as an overall Championship winner. \nThe landmark 50th annual event will welcome live audiences to the Perthshire venue’s impressive Victorian ballroom whilst also being live streamed\, allowing piping fans around the world to experience all aspects of the competition from home. \nThe Championship will get underway at 10am on Saturday 28th October and with limited availability on the door at Blair Castle\, people are encouraged to buy a ticket in advance for the in-person show\, priced at £20 per person or £15 for concessions. All in-person tickets include a programme. The online show is priced at £15 and will be available to view live and for one week after it is first streamed. \nThere is also an option to purchase a special commemorative booklet along with in-person tickets for £5. The booklet lists all the prize winners across the last 50 years\, charting the changes in the top solo piping scene. \nFollowing the competition\, the annual Pipers’ Ceilidh will take place in the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry\, with a limited number of tickets for this also available for purchase for an additional £60 on top of a competition ticket. There are also a number of special events planned as part of the 50th edition celebrations\, with details being announced in the coming months. \nThe National Piping Centre’s Director of Piping\, Finlay MacDonald\, said: “We are thrilled to be celebrating the 50th edition of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship at Blair Castle this October. It’s a fantastic celebration of the best pipers in the world\, and over the last five decades there have been some legendary competitors and winners which showcase the very best in our field. This year we’ll celebrate them all as well as finding our new champion\, and we’ve got some exciting new additions to this year’s event lined up to mark this amazing milestone too. We look forward to welcoming audiences new and old to Perthshire this autumn.” \n•The first Glenfiddich Piping Championship winner James (Jimmy) McIntosh in 1974.\n  \nFirst to lift the inaugural Glenfiddich trophy – for the first few years it was known as the Grant’s Piping Championship – in 1974 was James (Jimmy) McIntosh of Dundee. 2022’s winner was Willie McCallum from Campbeltown\, with Callum Beaumont from Dollar crowned runner-up and Fred Morrison from Renfrewshire placed third overall. Callum Beumont was also named the Piobaireachd winner\, and the March\, Strathspey and Reel (MSR) competition was also won by Willie McCallum. \nTickets for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 are on sale now at www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/glenfiddich.
URL:https://dev.bagpipe.news/event/glenfiddich-piping-championship/
LOCATION:Blair Castle\, Blair Atholl\, Pitlochry\, Perth & Kinross\, PH18 5TL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Malin Lewis and Mairearad Green piping in RETURN
DESCRIPTION:Return is a piece for four speaking voices\, a string quartet\, two pipers and two drummers. It’s an exploration into where long poem\, ritual theatre and ceremony meet. \nIt weaves together and layers up text\, music and performance as a celebration of the wheel of the year\, of emerging and receding\, and the common ground of death and renewal that unites us regardless and inclusive of all faiths and heritages. \nIt speaks of cycles and returns\, of seasons\, elements and the beyond human realms and rhythms; of expansion and contraction at our base and at our back that refuses the violence of fractured whiteness\, patriarchy and linear consumer capitalism. It is a meditation on the need to both mark and lose all track of time; how we inhabit the greater whole and have it be frame\, container and guidance. \nReturn will be performed in the round\, and by candlelight in Govan & Linthouse parish church\, over the full moon (occurring at 9.24pm) on Saturday October 28th 2023. \nThe venue is fully accessible. \nPerformance: 20.45- 22.00. (Doors: 20.30). \nTickets (please book below): £0-30. Pay what you can. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/return-tickets-707676598757 \nReturn platforms women\, non-binary and/or trans performers\, and will be accompanied by program notes about the concept and construction of linear clock time\, of timelessness\, of marking time and connection to place. \nPerformers: \nVoices: Jj Fadaka\, Lisa Fannen\, Babs Nicgriogair\, Susannah Stark.\nStrings: Elena Inei (violin)\, Una McGlone (double base)\, Simone Seales (cello)\, Semay Wu (cello).\nPipes: Mairearad Green\, Malin Lewis.\nDrums: Eilidh Graham\, Amy Redford. \nJj Fadaka (she/her) is a feminist writer and workshop facilitator living in Edinburgh. In a mix of non-fiction and storytelling\, she explores community\, feminism\, and love as a path to change. Jj’s workshops are based on black feminist radical traditions that allow us to imagine the world without barriers. Jj was featured as Poet in Residence for the 2023 StAnza International Poetry Festival. Her poetry zine ‘3 Days in Community’ is available from Lighthouse Books. \nLisa Fannen (she/her)\nLisa has been writing\, and sharing words solo and with musicians/ soundmakers\, in particular as part of a duo Claquer with Jer Reid. She published a poetry collection Faultline in 2018 and released it as a collaborative recording project in 2021. Lisa is also a bodyworker and activist concerned with dialogue and information exchange about health in the broadest sense of the term as part of movement for social justice.\nlisafannen.uk\ninthebody.uk \nBabs Nicgriogair (they/them)\nBabs Nicgriogair is a stornoweegie poetician\, a lover of hybrid and liminal spaces with a commitment to worker power\, community building and collective joy. \nSusannah Stark (she/her) is an artist and musician from Fife\, Scotland. Trained in printmaking\, her interest lies in exploring places – both internal and external – connected with experiences of faith and being in everyday life. She currently works with pop music as a medium to explore different dimensions of the human voice and manners of speech\, creating sparse sound collages orchestrated by voice\, field recordings\, trumpet and distorted percussion\, working often in collaboration with trumpet player Philip Cardwell and drummer Laurie Pitt (Golden Teacher). Her debut album ‘Time Together (Hues And Intensities)’ out on Stroom\, was described by Noel Gardner in The Quietus as “a seven-song serving of gossamer dub-pop experimentalism” and at a live show by Jude Browning in MAP Magazine as “music suspending weightlessness and opacity with the unfathomable facets of existence”.\nhttps://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/time-together-hues-and-intensities \nElena Inei (she/her)\nElena Inei is a violinist and improviser based in Glasgow. She is a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra\, Collective Endeavours and The New Strings Collective. Elena also collaborates with Barrowland Ballet’s intergenerational dance company Wolf Pack\, and plays in various other project based formations. \nUna MacGlone (she/her)\nUna works across improvisation\, jazz\, traditional and classical genres. She also collaborates regularly with dancers\, actors and poets\, using improvisation as a key transdisciplinary process. Some career highlights include recording with a film soundtrack and two albums with David Byrne; touring with Savourna Stevenson; recording three albums\, touring and performing at two Celtic Connections festivals with Rab Noakes and playing at the Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. As a founder member of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra\, she has an important role in performing and leading on creative projects such as an innovative annual exploration of Gaelic culture and improvisation with Ceòl ‘s Craic\, a leading Gaelic Arts organisation. As well as these collaborations\, her own music has been commissioned for and played on BBC radio 3.\nA new album with Jim McEwan has just been released on Scatter:\nhttps://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/sun-shadow \nSimone Seales (they/them)\nOriginally from Florida\, Simone Seales is a Glasgow-based cellist who completed their postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021. They focus on free improvisation\, both tonal and atonal\, and devising music for theatre.\nSimone is passionate about exploring sound\, how sound can reflect emotional states of being and how emotions are embodied. Their creative influences come from Black feminist leaders such as Audre Lorde\, Assata Shakur and bell hooks. Within Simone’s creative work\, they centre Blackness\, sexuality\, intersectional feminism and anti-racism. They believe Western Classical musicians are capable of making meaningful social change.\nsimoneseales.com \nSemay Wu (sē mā wo͞o) (she/her) works as a composer\, cellist/improviser\, and media/sound artist. Greatly influenced by improvisational frameworks\, Semay often uses interdisciplinary relationships to explore ideas of play\, through collaboration and spontaneity. Recent performances and recordings have developed as solo cello and electronics\, however\, Semay’s other works have found shape as video pieces\, performance/interactive-installations\, graphic scores\, as well as creating an online audio cookbook for Manchester’s communities. \nsemaywu.com \nMairearad Green (she/her)\nHaving grown up in the West Coast Coigach peninsula of the Scottish Highlands – an area steeped in culture and local traditions – Mairearad was introduced to folk music at an early age. Renowned for her deft and lyrical accordion style\, as well as her dextrous piping\, Mairearad is in great demand as a performer and composer. Many of her compositions are well known in the Scottish music scene. Among the favourites are ‘Maggie West’s Waltz’ and ‘Dram Behind the Curtain’. As a visual artist also\, Mairearad’s work can be described as impressionistic\, and a visceral response to the landscape she is so familiar. Her latest limited-edition vinyl release ‘Hearth’ seamlessly combines Mairearad’s two passions – art and music.\nmairearadgreen.co.uk \nMalin Lewis (they/them)\nMalin is a queer multi-instrumentalist inspired by humans\, queerness and the universe. One of Scotland’s most exciting creators\, Malin melds tradition with innovation on a unique newly invented\, self-made bagpipe. Malin’s long awaited debut album Halocline\, is named for the layer between salt and fresh water. Halocline is a sequence of compositions reflecting on the liminal spaces between Malin’s outer and inner worlds as a trans person. Recently Malin has been touring the UK with Making Tracks international Residency\, Recording film music in Berlin\, studying folk music in Helsinki and learning the tradition of the extinct Finnish Bagpipes as well as writing and performing music for theatre and contemporary dance.’\nmalinmakesmusic.com \nEilidh Graham (she/her) works in community cycling and community arts. Supporting people to take part in wellbeing and creative activities such as group percussion sessions\, craft sessions from a cargo bike\, group bike rides to explore nature\, connect with people and services in the community. She has played in a Glasgow Samba Band for 15 years\, and she cycles everywhere on her colourful bicycle! \nAmy Redford (she/her)\nAmy settled for a guitar at 16 because despite 4 years of pestering up until then\, they just wouldn’t get her a drum kit. She’s been hitting guitars increasingly harder ever since. She finally realised the drumming dream when she joined SheBoom in 2009\, where she now teaches and leads that drumming ensemble. On guitar\, she’s currently co-fronting Sequence 369 and busting out riffs with They Theory. Previous acts include Electric Ladygarden\, Blood Of The Bull\, Touch And Go\, and Stotally Toned. Amy is a nihilistic malcontent with a fair amount of existential dread\, which is expressed in her riffs\, solos\, and frenetic drumming.
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SUMMARY:Adults Gathering autumn school
DESCRIPTION:Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023\nThe National Piping Centre is bringing you a series of Adult Gatherings in 2023 for pipers aged 18+\, which have been designed to give a fantastic social learning experience. This year we will be running in person workshops  as well as online events. \nThe dates for our 2023 schools are: Autumn Adult Gathering: 30 October-2 November \nOur schools will run in two timezones\, one for in person teaching and one for online students. The in-person school will run during the day UK time (9am – 5pm UK time)\, with the online school running in the evenings (3pm – 9pm UK time). There will be no option for online learning during the day\, or in person learning in the evening. For the online schools to run in 2023\, we require a min of 6 students to register. Teachers for each school will be announced ahead of the event. \nThe school costs £275 in person and £240 online for the four days. \nWe have a new booking system for purchasing lessons. Once you have paid for your Adult Gathering place\, you will be sent an email with a form to give us more information about your playing level. Please complete this as soon as possible.. If you have a gathering booked and would like to look at your account\, please click Customer Account below\, and you can login from there. \nBOOK ADULT GATHERING   CUSTOMER ACCOUNT \nWhere will we meet?\nThe in person schools will take place at one of the two National Piping Centre locations in Glasgow City Centre or West End. This will be confirmed nearer the time of your school. For our online schools\, you will join us on Zoom each day for your day of tuition! Once you have registered\, we will be in touch with more information about the school and how you can log in each day. \nWhat will I learn?\nOver the four days there will be group lessons\, 1-2-1 tuition\, Masterclass workshops and more for pipers. Each piping student will be provided with a digital music pack so everyone will have new music to learn. \nWhat will the school cost?\nIt is £275 GBP to register for a place on one of our  in person schools and £240 GBP for an online school. Registrations will open shortly. \nWhat will my timetable look like?\nWe are just finalising the exact timetable and will update this soon\, but you can expect 1-2-1 lessons\, practice time\, masterclasses\, workshops\, new music and more. These will be similar for in person and online tuition. \nWho will be teaching me?\n \nEach school will have a different teaching line up\, from our world-class professional pipers. \nThe teachers for the upcoming Summer Adult Gathering will be: \nAndrew Bova\, John Mulhearn\, Ailis Sutherland and Dan Nevans \nIs It for me?\nIf you are still unsure about if it is right for you\, we asked attendees at our recent school to tell us about their experiences and here is what they had to say: \n” Thoroughly recommend attending an adult gathering at least once in your lifetime\, I’ve done it twice and it resulted both times in a positive step change in my piping.\nWorld class instructors\, fantastic location\, and an easy and open way of teaching” – Attended in person in Winter 2023 \n“I found the whole Gathering experience absolutely brilliant\, being able to attend in person\, the staff and guest tutors were so down to earth and approachable\, all being World famous Superstar Pipers. Everyone of them brought fountains of knowledge\, new techniques for us to consider for our level of piping\, and all where so passionate about piping\, that most lessons ran over\, which is so infectious. I’ve attended one or two Gatherings before\, all of which were well worth doing\, but this has to be the best todate. I’ve come away with renewed enthusiasm for my piping. I’ve always said\, if the NPC says this is how to do it\, no one can argue with that. I’ve had an amazing time\, met some old friends and made new ones\, will be booking for Spring 23. ” – Attended in person in Spring 2022 \nBOOK ADULT GATHERING   CUSTOMER ACCOUNT \nHearing Protection\nThe National Piping Centre requires all students to use hearing protection at all times when playing pipes. Hearing protection is available for purchase in our shop or free of charge from the earplug dispenser in both our piping school venues.\nFind out more
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