National Piping Centre

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Me and my wife actually did get married in the National Piping Center.

That's where we done it.

Um, and then the, the kind of wedding coordinator was asking us, like, "And would you like a, a, a piper to pipe you?" And my wife was like, "No, no, I don't really like bagpipes." And I was like, "Are you mental?"

And that's put out for them by a company called Inner Ear.

Great company, by the way, which provides a lot of coverage for other piping events and for the National Piping Centre and for Piping Live and indeed for the Glenfiddich Championship coming up later this month.

More on that soon.

So that's who covers the Friday and the Saturday live stream was always available from the BBC on its website.

So that's the 31st of October.

I think I saw something that said it might be sold out actually already.

But you should go on to the National Piping Centre website just to check that because that can change, I guess, if they're able to put more seats in or whatever.

But also there is live stream coverage as there has been for the past few years.

Pipe Major Iain Duncan.

[bagpipe music][bagpipe music] Pipe Major Iain Duncan with The Highland Wedding, Tullich Castle and John Morrison of Assynt House from the Piping Centre 1997 recital series.

And that is volume four, and that completes our music for this week.

Thanks very much to Alasdair Dunn and to Isla Stout for visiting me a few weeks ago here in the bothy.

He's a graduate of the RCS, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

and the National Piping Centre.

And he, like several others, also teaches pipes for a living.

I think I was making the point a couple of weeks ago, it's great to see so many of our top players, young players who are emerging from that degree course, in particular doing the teaching qualifications and heading into our schools.

He's from Dundee.

He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Piping Centre on the trad music degree there.

And he's very much up on what's required in this contest because he did a fair bit of research himself while studying for his degree into the playing styles of South Uist and of Cape Breton, both of which are entirely relevant to the task in hand.

He's taught at the National Piping Centre himself.

He's the bagpipe and whistle tutor himself.

for Clackmannanshire Council, and a great all-round player.

Like James Duncan Mackenzie, he is a good craftsman too.

He's learning the trade of pipe making in his case.