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unusual facts about pipe band



Australia Highlanders Pipe Band

The Australia Highlanders Pipe Band is a grade one pipe band, based in Nunawading, Victoria, Australia.

Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band

The Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band, founded in 2001, was a Grade One pipe band based in Airth, Scotland.

Hamilton Caledonian Pipe Band

The Hamilton Caledonian Pipe Band otherwise known as The Cales is an organisation with two bands competing one in grade "3" and one in grade "4a", with over 50 playing members based in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Pipe sergeant

A pipe sergeant, commonly abbreviated as "P/Sgt", is the number-two person in charge of the pipers in a pipe band or pipes and drums.

St. Marys Band Club Pipe Band

The St Marys District Band Club Pipes and Drums is a pipe band, based in the Suburb of St Marys, New South Wales.


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Atholl Highlanders

The Atholl Highlanders USA has the distinction of being the first pipe band to play at the Super Bowl, when it appeared at Super Bowl XXXIV.

Balmoral bonnet

Balmoral is widely used as a part of a uniform in Army Cadets and pipe band.

Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band

In 1972, a few townspeople of Boghall in West Lothian decided that they would try to form a pipe band.

Calgary Police Service Pipe Band

Since its first public performance leading the 1975 Calgary Stampede Parade, the Calgary Police Service Pipe Band has represented the City of Calgary and the Calgary Police Service by performing across Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Ceres, Fife

The name has led to contact with Ceres, Italy (visited by the local pipe band in the 1970s) and Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa (with which gifts were exchanged in the 1990s).

City of Adelaide Pipe Band

One year later, it won the Victorian Pipe Band Championships in Ringwood along with the the South Australian competition title, which has remained in the band's hands for almost two decades.

Dagenham Girl Pipers

In an essay by Douglas Adams published in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams described the Dagenham Girl Pipers as his "dream lover", writing "With all due respect and love to my dear wife, there are some things that, however loving or tender your wife may be, only a large pipe band can give you".

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.

Stuart Liddell

For ten years (1998–2008), he played with the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band in Burnaby, British Columbia and won three World Pipe Band Championship titles (1999, 2001, 2008.) Before joining the SFU Pipe Band, he played with Scottish Power Pipe Band.

Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association

After nearly seventy years of Highland musical contests in Australia, it was at the Maryborough gathering in 1924, Drum Major Lew Zilles OAM ED, broadcast the intent to form a group for coordinating Victorian pipe band affairs.