Wikipedia:WikiProject Bagpipes

This project aims to bring together editors interested in working on articles related to all aspects of bagpiping. Migrated from Wikipedia:WikiProject Pipe Bands in December 2016.

Ongoing article work

To create

• Bill Livingstone (bagpiper)
• Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band
• Angus MacDonald (piper) (MacDonald Brothers)
• Iain MacDonald (piper) (MacDonald Brothers)
• Allan MacDonald (piper) (MacDonald Brothers)
• Pre-Worlds concert
• Gold Medal (piping) (sand)
• Metro cup (bagpipe competition)
• Andrew Carlisle
• Ian MacLellan (sand)
• John McLellan (piper) (sand)
• March, Strathspey and Reel (sand)
• Medley (bagpipes) (sand)
• Falkirk Tryst
• Ross Ainslie
• Iain Morrison (piper)
• List of winners of the Gold Medal, Senior Piobaireachd and Former Winners' MSR at the Argyllshire Gathering (sand)
• List of winners of the Gold Medal, Clasp and Former Winners' MSR at the Northern Meeting (sand)
• List of winners of the Bratach Gorm (sand)
• List of winners of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship (sand)
• London Piping Championship
• Archibald Campbell
• Seumas MacNeill
• John MacDougall Gillies
• John MacKay of Raasay
• Donald Cameron (piper)
• Andrew Wright (piper)
• Donald MacLean (piper)
• Hugh MacKay (piper)
• Robert Brown (piper)
• Robert Nicol (piper)
• Johnstone Pipe Band
• Ian McLellan BEM
• John MacColl (piper)
• John Bàn Mackenzie
• Malcolm MacPherson (piper)
• Sandy Cameron (piper)
• John McLellan (piper)
• John A. MacLellan (piper)

Needs work

• Ceòl Beag
• Pipe major (sand)
• Roddy MacLeod
• Western Australia Police Pipe Band
• Triumph Street Pipe Band (sand)
• College of Piping
• Victoria Police Pipe Band (sand)
• Prince Charles Pipe Band
• City of Blacktown Pipe Band
• Windsor Police Pipe Band
• Great Highland Bagpipe
• NYPD Pipes and Drums
• Slainte Mhath
• Hamish Moore
• Pipe band
• Celtic Colours
• Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band
• Roddy (R.S.) MacDonald

Under construction

• Bratach Gorm
• Callum Beaumont

Done

• Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band Y
• Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band (sand) Y
• City of Victoria Pipe Band Y
• Angus MacColl (sand) Y
• Willie McCallum (sand) Y
• Murray Henderson (piper) Y
• Alan Bevan Y
• Steven McWhirter Y
• Jim Kilpatrick (sand) Y
• Callum Beaumont (sand) Y
• Bruce Gandy Y
• Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band (sand) Y
• Argyllshire Gathering (sand) Y
• Red Hackle Pipe Band Y
• J. Reid Maxwell Y
• Rona Lightfoot  Done
• Richard Parkes (piper) (sand) Y
• Donald Macpherson (piper) (sand) Y
• Willie Ross (piper) (sand) Y
• G.S. McLennan (sand) Y
• John Macdonald of Inverness (sand)  Done
• McCallum Bagpipes Y
• Helen MacLeod (sand) Y
• Alex Duthart (sand) Y
• Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band Y
• Donald Shaw Ramsay (sand) Y
• Stonehouse Pipe Band (sand) Y
• Dagenham Girl Pipers (sand) Y
• Northern Meeting (sand) Y
• Cowal Highland Gathering (sand) Y
• Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band (sand) Y
• William Lawrie (sand) Y
• Greentrax Recordings  Done
• Alasdair Gillies Y
• Margaret Dunn Y
• John Burgess (bagpiper) Y
• Donald MacLeod (piper) Y
• Faye Henderson Y
• Brìghde Chaimbeul Y
• St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band Y
• Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band Y
• Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band Y
• Glasgow Police Pipe Band Y
• Jack Lee (bagpiper) Y
• 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band Y
• Gordon Duncan Y
• Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band Y
• Simon Fraser University Pipe Band Y
• Angus MacKay (piper) Y
• Chris Armstrong (piper) Y

Photos

Looking for quality photos of all players and pipe bands that have their own article.

Notability guidelines

How to assess notability for bagpipe-related articles, especially historical ones? Guidelines for music acts and groups. Notability comes from coverage in media, but there are certain ways a band or player can generate that coverage. If a band or player hasn't competed at a high level or produced some other form of media, coverage is much more likely to be primary - ie generated by them - or only a mention in passing.

Pipe bands

See also: List of pipe bands

Ways for a band to assert notability:

• Bands that have spent time in Grade 1 at any point in history - and the coverage associated with competing at this level
• Featuring prominently in major events

Solo players

Ways for a solo player to become notable.

• Winning a Gold medal - there is only a finite number of these players
• As a touring musician

Composers

• ??

Makers

• List of bagpipe makers

Organisations

• Schools and associations covered by Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)

Tunes

• Only a few tunes meet the guidelines. Composers are more likely to be notable than tunes, and any useful information about a tune can also be said about the composer.

Key pages and categories

• List of pipe bands

Bagpiping

Bagpipes

Compositions for bagpipe

Piping events

History of the bagpipes

Bagpipe makers

Bagpipe museums

Pipe band associations

Pipe bands

Bagpipe players

Bagpiping schools

Bagpipe societies

Participants

Userboxes

This user is a member of
WikiProject Bagpipes.

GHBThis user plays the Great Highland Bagpipe.

Add {{User WP Bagpipes}} to your user page to be added to the category of participants. {{User Highland Bagpipes}} is also available.

• JarrahTree 23:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Templates

Pipe Band Infobox

{{Infobox Pipe band}} all pipe band articles

Musical Artist Infobox

{{Infobox musical artist}} for solo players

Grade 1 pipe band NavBox

{{Grade 1 pipe bands}} for the bottom of articles on Grade 1 pipe bands.

Talk Page Template

{{WikiProject Bagpipes}} for article and category talk pages

Stub template

{{Pipe-band-stub}} for pipe band stubs

Sources

• pipesdrums.com/ Frequent news, some in-depth features that require subscription
• pipetunes.ca Good bios for many piping composers

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• Roots, folk and traditional