pipes|drums contest: win two tickets to FMM’s pre-World’s concert!

pipes|drums, Field Marshal Montgomery and Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye are pleased to announce a special contest for one canny reader to win two tickets to “RE:CHARGED,” the August 8th Field Marshal Montgomery concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Promoted annually by the Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye Pipe Band, the concert is considered by most to be the premier pipe band performance of the year. Field Marshal last performed at the concert in 2002, a year when the band went on to capture its third World’s title.

The reader with the most correct answers to the questions below will receive two tickets to the show.

Answers must be submitted by e-mail and include “Concert contest” in the subject line.

E-mail answers to editor@pipesdrums.com for your chance to win.

Entries must be received by end-of-day, Wednesday, August 1st. The entrant with the most correct (or nearest-to-correct, if necessary) answers will be notified by e-mail and can pick up the tickets with photo ID at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall box office.

Here we go, then:

1. How many Grade 1 RSPBA Major Championships has FMM won as of July 23, 2007?

2. How many official (not acting) pipe-majors has FMM had since 1976?

3. In what year did FMM win its first RSPBA Major in Grade 1?

4. What is the name of the tartan that FMM currently wears?

5. How many pipers did FMM play when it won its first Grade 1 World Championship?

Good luck!

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