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Skype has been a familiar platform for “e-learning” for pipers and drummers for some time, but the National Piping Centre plans . . .

The Bleary & District Pipe Band of Northern Ireland will return to competition in the 2013 UK season after a seven-year . . .

Andy Ross, one of the most popular chanter reed-makers in piping history, died on April 2, 2013, after a protracted illness . . .

Seven years after it originally implemented it, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has eliminated its practice of consultative pipe band judging, a topic of active debate for . . .

Shotts & Dykehead is now officially once again Shotts & Dykehead, as one of the world’s most storied pipe bands has ended its . . .

After months of deliberations, Grade 2 bands in Ontario will be allowed to “challenge up” at select contests, going head-to-head against bands in the top grade ¨C but only if there are three or fewer bands competing in Grade 2, and only where the Grade 1 event . . .

Nova Scotia Antigonish Highland Games, one of the world’s oldest and longest-running piping, drumming . . .

The Canadian “May Long Weekend” has for any years marked the open of the Highland games season on the prairies, even though the . . .

If you want to compete at competitions sanctioned by the Midwest Pipe Band Association, you’d best have access to the Internet and a PayPal account as the organization has launched an online-only entry system for pipers and drummers, with an aim to streamline access to its nine full events in 2013. Like most associations that allow competitions to run independently, but with contest governance, rules and judging sanctioning, the MWPBA has relied on non-piping/drumming games organizers to manage an often complex entry system, leaving competitors to deal with disparate and sometimes confusing . . .

With patent-pending features that “herald a new dawn for pipe band tenor drumming,” TyFry Ultimate tenor drum mallets . . .

The world’s two biggest indoor piping and drumming events will take place on the same day when the British Columbia Pipers’ Association . . .

While the lists for the Senior and Gold Medal piobaireachd competitions comprise mostly familiar tunes and a conventional approach, the Piobaireachd Society has added a twist . . .

After 130 years, the Edinburgh City / Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band officially ended . . .

The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which for the last 37 years has steadily built its name after its 1975 move from the Glasgow Police Pipe Band . . .

The absence of the world’s most famous tenor drummer will not adversely impact House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead, according to Leading-Drummer Jim Kilpatrick after Tyler Fry decided to . . .