#TuneTuesday | Donald Willie and His Dog
I was having a Twitter discussion with someone yesterday about my piping career when they asked me what my favourite tune to play was. I’ve already posted “Crossing the Minch,” […]
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#TuneTuesday | Mist Covered Mountains
For this week’s #TuneTuesday, we decided to do something a bit different by introducing the small pipes. Similar to the great highland bagpipes, small pipes only have nine notes and […]
#TuneTuesday | Pipe Major Donald MacLean of Lewis
This #TuneTuesday is a great ‘walking around’ tune as those that have played in higher grade competitive pipe bands would call it. Walking around tunes are used for parades or […]
#TuneTuesday | A Man’s A Man For A’ That
This weekend and on Monday, January 25th, Scots around the world will celebrate the Scottish poet Robbie Burns’ birthday. This usually involves a traditional haggis dinner, some even more interesting […]
#TuneTuesday | Scots Wha Hae
For January’s series of #TuneTuesday posts, we’re going to continue with the theme of Robbie Burns-inspired bagpipe tunes. If you were to learn how to play the bagpipes, especially if you […]
Family Ties to the University of Stirling
On September 11th, I had the honour of piping in Sue, a representative from the University of Stirling during a conference hosted at the University of Waterloo. I was really […]
Piping Down the Sun at McDougall Cottage
For the past two weeks, I have volunteered to spend Sunday afternoons piping down the sun at McDougall Cottage in Cambridge, Ontario. For more than a century, Scotsmen called this quaint […]
