I ran across a very interesting report on a letter from Dr. McLeod to John Mackenzie dated 30 October 1781, where the question of the Prize Pipe to be awarded in the first competition was[…]

There has been some discussion since the publication of The APC Guide to Pibroch, much of it centering around the question of how to classify piobaireachd.   The contention in the book is that piobaireachd[…]

So, here we are: the final volume of Series One edition. In it are eight tunes generally well known today.  The same “Committee” is at work as in the previous book and includes P-M William[…]

By the time Volume 4 hit the shelves, the Society, enough dissatisfaction with the scores had been voiced that the Piobaireachd Society invited professional pipers into its ranks, including John Macdonald of Inverness,  John MacDougall[…]

Volume 3 continues the “hit parade” of pibroch as we know it today.  It should be clear that the effort by the Piobaireachd Society to re-introduce “the playing of Piobaireachd not now generally known, or[…]

The first volume’s publication was not a hit, by any means.  The competitive pipers rebelled against the requirement that they follow the published scores note-for-note: the living pibroch tradition was not, by any means, accurately[…]

The first volume begins with a declaration of intent by the newly founded Piobaireachd Society: “To revive the study and play of ‘Ceòl-Mór’ and to record its History.” While clearly nationalistic in origin (“To repeat[…]