Pipers From Paisley to Pakistan Draw 40,000 Spectators to World Pipe Band Championship House of Edgar Takes World Title
Sunday Herald › August 16, 2005
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THE droning began at Paddy's Market and built into a wall of sound in the Saltmarket, as the ancient heart of Glasgow reverberated to the massed ranks of several thousand pipes and drums.
The World Pipe Band Championships encamped on Glasgow Green yesterday, and not since Bonnie Prince Charlie marched into the city at the head of the clans on Boxing Day, 1745, has the city witnessed such a bagpiping spectacle.See the full content of this document
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Pipers From Paisley to Pakistan Draw 40,000 Spectators to World Pipe Band Championship House of Edgar Takes World Title
With 230 bands comprising some 8500 players and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Worlds was bigger and louder than ever before.
They came from all over Scotland, and throughout the world. T...See the full content of this document
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