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The most successful pipe bands in this competition remain the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band (known as City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band from 1912 to 1975) winning 20 times between 1920 and 1991, and the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band (winning 16 times).
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. There are many such bands in the world, which play for ceremonial purposes, recreation, competition or all three. This list encompasses only notable pipe bands with their own Wikipedia page.
The College of Piping Logo General (Ret'd) John de Chastelain O.C., CMM, CD, CH (top left). The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada, established in 1990 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, is an international school teaching Highland bagpiping, Scottish-style snare drumming, Highland Dancing and Island step dancing.
The Pipes on Parade ensemble will include over 100 drummers, bagpipers and dancers in Scottish attire from across the U.S., Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland and Scotland, making up the largest ...
The Piping Live!Festival (a.k.a. Piping Hot Festival) is an annual bagpiping event held in Glasgow by the National Piping Centre.The festival was created in 2003 and occurs on the run-up to the World Pipe Band Championships. [1]
Pipe bands have long been part of military tradition, most notably in the United Kingdom and its former colonies. Many of the same standard tunes are found in both the military and civilian pipe band repertoires, and many similarities exist in terms of musical style, historical and musical influences, and dress and deportment.
The championships will be held on Glasgow Green on August 16-17.
In 1932, the band switched to bagpipes, which are referred to in Ireland as the warpipes.Since the warpipes stirred up the Irish in battle, they were legally defined as an instrument of war under British law, and to play the pipes during the time of the Penal Laws was a capital offense. [3]