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Front cover of a book of Highland bagpipe music for Pipe Band performance

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1932

Postcard of Front cover of a book of Highland bagpipe music for Pipe Band performance.
000-000-579-628-C
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Front cover of a book of Highland bagpipe music for Pipe Band performance

Printed book of 16 pages, price 6d., with 'Selection of Marches, Strathspeys and Reels, to be played by competitors in the World's Championship Pipe Band Contest at Dunoon, 1932', published by the Dunoon Highland Gathering Committee. The World's Championship Pipe Band contest was first held at Dunoon in 1906 and the Committee took the original step in 1932 of specifying the tunes to be played by the bands taking part in the Contest at the Cowal Highland Gathering that year. Any band competing in the World's Championship Contest was required to play any one of the marches, strathspeys and reels in the book, the selection being of three of each kind of tune together with drum beatings.

Pipe bands have been a notable cultural and social feature of life in Scotland for well over a century, particularly in the towns and villages and industrial communities of Central Scotland. Mining communities for example sustained a very strong tradition of pipe bands and music-making, particularly between the 1920s and the 1970s. The pipe band movement now spans continents, including North America, Australia and New Zealand, and involves many thousands of players across the world who come together in competition seasons where the bands are graded in increasingly rigorous and spirited contests.


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Online ID: 000-000-579-628-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0869: The Bagpipe Collection
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  Cowal.1
Date: 1932 (date of publication)
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What: Music book
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Who: Dunoon Highland Gathering Committee (publisher)
Where: Scotland, Dunoon (place of competition)
Event: World's Championship Pipe Band Contest
Description: Printed music book of sixteen pages of Highland bagpipe music.
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