Your Piping Repertoire

Plan it, practice it keep it! Guidance for competing pipers from Jim McGillivray of Ontario, renowned Gold Medallist, teacher, website innovater and, more importantly, occasional SPSL Bratach Judge.

Roddy MacLeod: Piobaireachd Volume 1

A review of a 9 times Gillies Cup winner's groundbreaking piobaireachd project. 

The Funeral of Malcolm MacPherson 

An eye witness account of the somewhat explosive internment of a piping legend, by Ronald Smith of Perthshire.

Harpenden 2008 Results

Get the results, pictures and a report from Harpenden by clicking here!

Sheep in Buchts Kye in Fiels 

A new piobaireachd took second prize at the SPSL Member's comp in April 2008. Read an account by the composer and the performer, then download the sheet music and an MP3 of the tune, as performed by Pipe Major Roger huth.

Lochcarron Savile Row Kilts SPSL Member's Comp 2008

Results, a report and pictures from this event can be viewed by clicking here. The winner of the first Jim Caution Memorial Quaich is James Gillespie. Well done James!

MacPherson & MacNeill

An amusing story from Ron Smith of Perthshire, a former pupil of Malcolm MacPherson, on a time two piping legends met.

In Memory of Jim Caution

13th March 1922 - 23rd December 2007 


Piping at the Mudlark

Read Alasdair Smith's report on our Mudlark nights here.


Bagpipes & the Devil

How did the highland bagpipe get the reputation of being the Devil's Black Sticks?

The Henderson Early Years

Who actually turned Henderson pipes prior to 1880?