I discovered this YouTube video produced by Associated Press recently. It’s an interesting video about the making of Gibson bagpipes in Willoughby, Ohio. The founder, Jerry Gibson, has been making the pipes since 1978. The Gibson pipes are patterned after Capt. John MacLellan’s prize-winning MacDougall bagpipes. The Gibson is renowned for its classic MacDougall sound. …
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To most readers of this Vancouver and Pacific Northwest bagpiping blog, the bagpiping forums at bobdunsire.com is a familiar online location to connect with the piping and drumming community worldwide. It’s here you can buy and sell pipes and supplies, listen in and participate in lively discussions about just about everything in the piping world, …
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Here’s a YouTube video of the Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band, of which I am a Director. This is the band’s medley from the 2009 World Pipeband Championships in Glasgow, Scotland last August. This was the “new” band’s first time competing in the World’s Grade One competition and they made the “cut”, in other words, …
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Bagpiping in British Columbia is a lot of fun. But think of what can happen with 2,500 bagpipers and drummers in Las Vegas?
The skies are clearing, the weather is warming, and the days are getting closer to when we can get our bagpipes out of the indoor air, and out into the great outdoors.