What an awesome interview!!! I'm so glad to know more about Rab Wallace and his extraordinary experience and accomplishments in piping. I'm a former student of the late Sandy Jones and John MacFayden. I'm a teacher at Sandy's piping school and Piobaireachd Society supporter and member. I appreciate your work Allen, for your channel and this great interview!
Good old Robert! A master of Piobaireachd and a perfect gentleman. I had the pleasure of meeting him in the Isle of Skye last year at the Piobaireachd Summer School. All the best and hopefully I'll see him and Jack in Glasgow this summer! Josh
I remember Robert being one of the Muirheads pipers (must admit, for years didn't recognise him without his big Afro lol) and I competed in the same Eagle pipers solo march contest at Royal Arch Halls back in 74-75. Hugh McInnes, Rab Pinkman, George Lumsden, John D Burgess, Hugh Jamieson, Murray Henderson were competing that day. I was always under the opinion that Muirheads as a band play better than solo pipers, then and also of today. Incredible hard powerful playing and expression. Never mind the simple hurdie gurdie march playing of today's top grade 1 bands. They were a class band. I wish I and everyone else could hear their radio Scotland 30min special broadcast which was around 1975-76. Anyway, I also remember Muirheads playing in the back garden at Shotts around 1975 with Hugh Kennedy, Tulloch Castle and Lexy McAskill and noticed the brilliant Bob Hardie having a bit of a struggle with the chanters on the green. Not surprising if they were going for a higher pitch like Robert mentions here. Robert is spot on with his comments here and how do grade 1 bands get away with playing the SOS as they did the year before. In the MSR, bands of today for many years even, seem to alternate between three tunes every year. Such as FMM can just turn up and play the easy as pie, long and boring Highland Wedding march which they've played for decades off and on. SFU too. A good video interview Robert.
What an awesome interview!!! I'm so glad to know more about Rab Wallace and his extraordinary experience and accomplishments in piping. I'm a former student of the late Sandy Jones and John MacFayden. I'm a teacher at Sandy's piping school and Piobaireachd Society supporter and member.
I appreciate your work Allen, for your channel and this great interview!
Good old Robert! A master of Piobaireachd and a perfect gentleman. I had the pleasure of meeting him in the Isle of Skye last year at the Piobaireachd Summer School. All the best and hopefully I'll see him and Jack in Glasgow this summer!
Josh
I remember Robert being one of the Muirheads pipers (must admit, for years didn't recognise him without his big Afro lol) and I competed in the same Eagle pipers solo march contest at Royal Arch Halls back in 74-75. Hugh McInnes, Rab Pinkman, George Lumsden, John D Burgess, Hugh Jamieson, Murray Henderson were competing that day. I was always under the opinion that Muirheads as a band play better than solo pipers, then and also of today. Incredible hard powerful playing and expression. Never mind the simple hurdie gurdie march playing of today's top grade 1 bands. They were a class band. I wish I and everyone else could hear their radio Scotland 30min special broadcast which was around 1975-76. Anyway, I also remember Muirheads playing in the back garden at Shotts around 1975 with Hugh Kennedy, Tulloch Castle and Lexy McAskill and noticed the brilliant Bob Hardie having a bit of a struggle with the chanters on the green. Not surprising if they were going for a higher pitch like Robert mentions here. Robert is spot on with his comments here and how do grade 1 bands get away with playing the SOS as they did the year before. In the MSR, bands of today for many years even, seem to alternate between three tunes every year. Such as FMM can just turn up and play the easy as pie, long and boring Highland Wedding march which they've played for decades off and on. SFU too. A good video interview Robert.
Robert was my teacher in 2004/2005 at the College of Piping.
Can anyone name the tune Stuart Liddell is playing in the intro?