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Spring 2015 Vol. 44, No. 1 Table of Contents Spring 2015 Vol. 44, No. 1 Table of Contents 4 President’s Message Music 5 Editorial 33 Jimmy Tweedie’s Sealegs 6 Letters to the Editor 43 Report for the Reviews Executive Secretary 34 Review of Gibson Pipe Chanter Spring 2015 35 The Campbell Vol. 44, No. 1 Basics Tunable Chanter 9 Snare Basics: Snare FAQ THE VOICE is the official publication of the Eastern United 11 Bass & Tenor Basics: Semiquavers States Pipe Band Association. Writing a Basic Tenor Score 35 The Making of the 13 Piping Basics: “Piob-ogetics” Casco Bay Contest John Bottomley 37 Pittsburgh Piping EDITOR [email protected] Features Society Reborn 15 Interview Shawn Hall 17 Bands, Games Come Together Branch Notes ART DIRECTOR 19 Willie Wows ‘Em 39 Southwest Branch [email protected] 21 The Last Happy Days – 39 Metro Branch Editorial Inquiries/Letters the Great Highland Bagpipe 40 Ohio Valley Branch THE VOICE in JFK’s Camelot 41 Northeast Branch [email protected] ADVERTISING INQUIRIES John Bottomley [email protected] THE VOICE welcomes submissions, news items, and ON THE COVER: photographs. Please send your Derek Midgley captured the joy submissions to the email above. of early St. Patrick’s parades in the northeast with this photo of Rich Visit the EUSPBA online at www.euspba.org Harvey’s pipe at the Belmar NJ event. ©2014 Eastern United States Pipe Band EUSPBA MEMBERS receive a subscription to THE VOICE paid for, in part, Association. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted by their dues ($8 per member is designated for THE VOICE). Membership without written permission from the publisher. is only valid from the date of application until the end ofthe calendar year. The Voice reserves the right to make the final To ensure that you don’t miss an issue of THE VOICE, you must renew your decision on all content and advertisements. The views expressed by contributors are not membership early each year! Send membership inquiries and address necessarily those of the EUSPBA, its officers, or its editors. updates for members to EUSPBA, PMB 316, 560 Peoples Plaza, Newark, DE 19702-4798, or email [email protected]. Eastern United States Pipe Band Association The Voice Vol. 44, No. 1 Spring 2015 3 President’s Message By Dan Cole For those of us in northern half of the association, The executive committee met in a particularly harsh winter is nearly behind us and Newark, New Jersey on February 20 the spring contest season will soon be well underway. and 21st to tie up the last of the loose ends from the AGM Spring is a season of rebirth and of new life. It is fitting in November. You can read about the various proposals and that this is the season for our new online reincarnation of their outcomes in this edition. The Voice. While I know many of us, myself included, will miss receiving our hard-copy edition, the electronic version You should start seeing a number of new faces on the will allow the potential for broader contact, provide better other side of the bench as a number of our professional value for our advertisers and will represent a cost savings pipers will be taking the judges’ exam on April 12th to our association of nearly $18,000 on an annual basis. in Virginia. To add a unique twist to the weekend, the The savings will be put toward improving the standard of association will be hosting a professional piobaireachd our art through competition and education of players and and march, strathspey, reel, hornpipe and jig event in judges alike. I will keep you posted as to these initiatives as conjunction with the Woodberry Forrest contest being they take shape throughout the year. run on the same weekend. Thanks go to Matt Wood and June Hanley for spearheading that project. Another major shift pending that I want to make you all aware of is the with regard to our Annual General I must say that there are a lot of new ideas “in the Meeting. As some of you may know, the real number is incubator” and I am really looking forward to seeing statistically very small, our AGM is boring and poorly what comes out the other end and reporting to you. attended. It is perhaps a classic chicken/egg scenario. This year we are going to adjust the format. While we Spring is here and it is meteorological and are still hammering out the details, our hope is that the astronomical fact that summer will follow. I hope you weekend will include a workshop and professional piping are all accomplishing that you set out to do with your contest. My hope is that these activities, combined with playing and that band halls are buzzing with the activity an attractive venue will remarkably increase attendance. required to give your sets some final polish. We are hoping to have a “trade show” element to the weekend. Thank you to Wayne Holscott for reaching Have a great spring and I am looking forward to seeing out to potential vendors! We are looking at locations in you around the games. Baltimore’s inner-harbor and are targeting that location if we can keep costs similar to those of an airport hotel. Dan EUSPBA OFFICERS BRANCH CHAIRS Dan Cole Matt Wood Metro Branch Southwest Branch PRESIDENT TREASURER Brian O’Kane Nancy Love [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jim Dillahey Helen Harlow Midatlantic Branch Ohio Valley Branch VICE PRESIDENT OFFICER-AT-LARGE Mary Wallace Andrew Duncan [email protected] MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR [email protected] [email protected] Sheldon Hamblin 24 Highlander Dr. Northeast Branch Southern Branch Fredricksburg, VA 22406 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Maureen Connor Bill Caudill (540)373-4890 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Betsy Bethel-McFarland [email protected] RECORDING SECRETARY [email protected] Wayne Holscott OFFICER-AT-LARGE [email protected] Eastern United States Pipe Band Association The Voice Vol. 44, No. 1 Spring 2015 4 Editorial By John Bottomley I have been an EUSPBA judge for a long time; some might anybody who ever complains about say too long. New judging experiences are few and far "How do you compare a two-parted between at this point. The games in Jacksonville, Florida, strathspey with a four-parted one" offered me one. is going to hear from me. I was asked to judge a composition contest. Open to But that's not really the point. The point is that all grades and all types of pipe tunes. I had grade one Jacksonville, like a few other games, is doing something players playing hornpipes. I had jigs, 2/4 marches, and different to encourage participation. I believe I had seven a piobaireachd. The quality of the playing didn't count or eight players entered in the event. There was a sponsor (which, given the weather was a good thing). It was for the prize--a bit of extra money for the games, or a mahhhvelous. trophy and recognition for the prizewinners. It is, as they say, a win-win situation. The tunes were ALL good. They were nicely crafted and melodic, and choosing a winner was not easy. And The winning tune, beautifully hand written: Letters to the Editor “The Drama” The point of all of this is to point out some observations I have made. I want to point these things out because it is very Editor’s note: The letter writer wished to remain anonymous, important we all stay focused on what is important, which is and I respected those wishes. I am holding the music. Without the music we are not really serving any the writer’s identity in confidence, therefore. I will not, purpose, carrying on any tradition, or honoring anything or however, publish a letter that comes to me with no name. anyone. Also, anything that feels slanderous or libelous is right out. Any way I will get started. Now I am not going to point As a member of several pipe bands I have noticed they out every single thing that I believe causes trouble in a pipe all have something in common. They all have drama! band. I can’t do that. In fact there will always be some sort of It is everywhere and it seems so avoidable yet it always issue with any organization…not just pipe bands. occurs. The problem with this is it gets in the way of our main goal and that is to play music. If it seems there is always turmoil in your band take a look at your roster. Think about who in your band is causing I am not telling anyone anything new here. Anyone who the problems. I guarantee you will find a couple of things. has been around pipe bands for any time knows exactly First there will be a lot more good people than trouble what I am talking about. I am not talking about troubles makers. There are not a lot of people who want to cause with parade routes or bands being announced as a different trouble. The problem with a trouble maker is they cause band. I am referring to people not practicing, complaining trouble and it can bring the whole group down. Second if about one another, people taking sides on different issues, that individual or a few individuals never played to any band members accusing other band members of stealing standard they probably never will. They are busy focusing on solo gigs, and people in leadership positions talking other things, not the music.
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