![]() I’m sure others will be able to add more reasons:ġ Grades 2, 3A & 3B have suffered greatly over the past three decades due to the loss of the best leaders and quality playersĢ The number of quality pipe bands in Grades 2, 3A & 3B has reduced greatlyģ The top pipers and drummers who once honed the necessary foundation skills in the lower grades before moving up to Grade 1, tend to move up too soon.Ĥ Grade 1 bands on home turf at present are arguably not all of true Grade 1 standard. On the numbers game, four reasons why it must change. Until bands get off the fence and demand the formation of an Independent Adjudication Review Body there will be no change on the adjudication front. However, the outcomes of pipe band competitions have much more to do with adjudicators.ġ Those who respond to what actually happens in the circleĢ The totally inept who apparently have some difficulty hearing and seem to know little about piping or drummingģ Those who wish to inspire, shape the future but instead simply manipulate. Not wishing to offend anyone, but……… I picked up the comments re the size of today’s pipe bands. I hope that this article and others like it will enable people to see the political figure, in this case, as a man and not as a beacon for a political ideology that they either agree or disagree with. We are all here together and have to learn how to deal with anyone who may diametrically oppose our own personal positions without resulting to personal attacks. I am often disgusted with the way people of different opinions are lambasted in social media. I believe that it is good for people to see political figures as real people with personal histories and human experiences regardless of there political views or affiliations. Thank you for the interview with Mr Barr. Interestingly he told me that one of the highlights of his life was a trip to Scotland when he visited the home of Sir William Alexander Smith in Thurso! Hope this finds you in good fettle. He was awarded the ‘Order of Australia’ (our equivalent of the MBE) for his amazing work with boys. Pan Australian Camp involving boys from all over Australia and other countries including New Zealand, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other South Pacific nations. ![]() in Sydney as a young man and became captain of a Company. Max’s father was from Hawick and he was very proud of his Scottish heritage. The band’s success under Bob Hardie after that is legendary talk about being in the right place at the right time! My association with the Boys’ Brigade continues down under and just last week I played at the funeral of Max Gray who I first met back in the 1990s when I was involved with B.B. ![]() ![]() Dougie Elmslie and I caught up with him when we joined the Muirheads in late 1964 and became almost ‘local heroes’ when the band won the British Championships for the first time the following year! ![]() Robert was ages with me and we grew up playing fitba’ and of course with the 214th GCBB pipe band. I was saddened to read about Robert Turner’s passing so soon after Jim Hardie. The correspondence below is retained for interest and will be accessed by anyone using the search engine on the site. From 2020 the Letters Page is incorporated in the regular blog posts on PP. ![]()
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