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In a statement to pipes|drums, the Strathclyde Police force has indicated that its world-class Grade 1 band “will continue to . . .

W.L. Gore, the company that introduced the first mass-market synthetic pipe bag in the mid-1980s, has announced that it is closing . . .

The collective power of online social networking properties like Facebook has been realized like never before in the wake of two . . .

Normally pipe bands are happy to bring in one or two pipe band drummers to teach pipe band technique, but the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland is making an unusual . . .

Dublin’s St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band, winners of the RSPBA’s Champion of Champions aggregate award in 2008, will unveil . . .

The Governor-General of Canada, Micha?lle Jean, has accepted an invitation from Ottawa’s Grade 4 Sons of Scotland Pipe Band to be its patron, recognizing . . .

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The National Piping Centre has chosen Alisdair McLaren as the new Director of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, after a three-month . . .

Some would say that spinning judges can have a lot to do with success in piping and drumming competitions, but the . . .

The growing number of pipers and drummers in Austria now have an organization to call home, with the advent of the . . .

Filmmaker-piper John MacDonald of Pasadena, California, is still searching for enough funding for his documentary on the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band for a premier and ongoing screening . . .

The 2008 World Pipe Band Champions, Simon Fraser University, have confirmed that the band will take the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall stage for the . . .

If the availability of two new full-time paid positions is any indicator, the piping and drumming world might seem recession-proof, as separate . . .

At a meeting of the RSPBA’s Music Board on January 17th, a proposal from the association’s Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch to consider . . .

The piping community in Western Canada lost one of …