Today I purchased a UE Megaboom to help with practice, mainly to record the Sails grade 4 medley and be able to play it back and play along with it. This is surprisingly loud enough to hear while playing. Today’s practice was to achieve two things, run through both the City of Sails Grade 4 […]
Practice tonight as promised was straight onto the pipes, and straight into leading it for me. The pipe major has put Marion and myself as leaders for each of the two mini bands for next months competition. I first led the band in the City of Sails Medley consisting of Sails Attack, The Hag At […]
The night went well for me, another trophy to add the mantle – most improved piper. As a result I cannot idly take a backseat in this band; as the Pipe major (Kerry) was describing the person to get this award, mentioned that me to take a more active role in the band including leading […]
Last weekend was the Auckland Solo Piping Festival in which I entered C grade 2/4 March and C grade Strathspey and Reel. I decided to use my new band reed that I got from Kerry on Wednesday. This reed sounded really good, was easy to control, and didn’t squeak anywhere. I asked Michel to help […]
https://youtu.be/rg3G-ya7YNo Video of my Strathspey & Reel at the Auckland Solo Piping Festival 2017
My Solo C Grade 2/4 March Donald Macleans Farewell to Oban
