Sage grouse: College of Piping and related resources, CoP Radio, Fettes College ~ Piping Instructor Applications (I went to school at Fettes from 1976-77), Great piping from Gordon Walker, Gordon McCready and David Wilton, Douglas Murray and Iain MacDonald, Will add some of this to the Great_Highland_Bagpipe wiki page at WUaS, Scottish folk (rock) groups - Tannahill Weavers, Battlefield Band, Will add these to my Pandora.com channels

Hey R, 

Think you might enjoy and find edifying some of these College of Piping and related resources:

CoP Radio - 

http://www.collegeofpiping.org/2014/04/cop-radio-april-2014/

(it's worth listening to a wide variety of tunes by, for example, Gordon Walker, Gordon McCready and David Wilton and Douglas Murray and other great pipers often)

Fettes College ~ Piping Instructor Applications - 

http://www.collegeofpiping.org/2014/04/fettes-college-piping-instructor-applications/

(I went to school at Fettes from 1976-77 and played in its pipe band; we took second in a competition at Gordonstoun school ... was it partly because I hadn't shaved as a 17 year old? :)

(I learned of Gordon McReady from the above, so I'm adding these, too ... )

Gordon McCready at Piping Live - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS0E77mnwBs

Gordon McReady - Field Marshall Montgomery - 

http://www.fmmpb.com/mccready_gordon.htm

I'll add some of this to the GHB wiki page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe.

Shall we become 'familiar faces' on the competition circuit in Scotland - for learning's and playing's sake ? :)

Check out PM Duncan Nicholson of the Greater Glasgow Police Pipeband, selections, who (DN, I think) used to play for the Tannahill Weavers (a Scottish folk rock group from Paisley), who chose Iain MacDonald playing with the Battlefield band (also a Scottish folk rock group), at about the 18:45 minute mark ... I enjoy piping in folk music groups, particularly :)

(Will add the Tannahill Weavers and the Battlefield Band to my Pandora.com channels :))

Scott

P.S.

In enjoying lyrical piping tunes, I've really enjoyed playing from John MacFadyen's Book 1, as well as playing Duncan Johnston and Donald MacLeod's tune ... and here's a recent CoP with some main books with compositions by them, as well as John MacColl's tunes, whose music I also enjoy ... fun simply to play through these tunes ... and here's a CoP blog entry, also from today ... 

PT Ed’s Blog 19/4/14 - 

http://www.collegeofpiping.org/2014/04/pt-eds-blog-19414/

P.P.S.

I'm also posting this blog entry and the Tie Dye kilts entry above to the Scotland wiki page at WUaS as blog entries ... 

CoP resources - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/04/sage-grouse-college-of-piping-and.html

Tie Dye kilts - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/04/tie-dye-kilts-may-add-this-blog-entry.html

... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland ...

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