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Mags SmithBackground
Brought up in the Manchester area, Annie was a pupil of Pipe Major Rose Fletcher and also played in her band. She moved to the Dunoon area in the 1970s. She is a teacher by profession, and she has been active in piping education for over thirty years through the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and also in schools in the Cowal peninsula.Publisher
The National Piping CentreDate
09-05-2012Format
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Event- Burgh Cup
- Church of Scotland Youth Rally
- Victory in Europe Celebrations 1995
- World Pipe Band Championships 2000
- Black Knight Pageant
- 4th July Parade
- Cowal Highland Gathering
- College of Piping Summer Schools
- Cowal Primary Schools
- Dunoon Grammar School Pipe Band
- Inveraray and District Juvenile Pipe Band
- Rose Fletcher Ladies Pipe Band
- Royal Family
- St Martin's in the Fields
- Strachur and District Piping Association
- Strathclyde Regional Council
- United States Navy Base Dunoon
- Yehudi Menuhin Trust
- Dunoon Grammar School
- Glenfiddich Championship
- R.G. Hardie
- College of Piping
- Northern Meeting
- Argyll and Bute District Council
- Scottish Qualifications Authority
- Stuart Liddell
- Sir Fitzroy Maclean
- Sally Beamish
- Rose Fletcher
- Rona Lightfoot
- Robert Irvine
- Niall Campbell
- Neil Munro
- Marquess of Bute
- Mags Smith
- Kate Paton see also Catherine MacInnes
- Joseph Tito
- Josef Haydn
- James Bond
- Iain Fleming
- Her Majesty the Queen
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Catherine MacInnes see also Kate Paton
- Black Knight
- Alex MacIntyre
- Allan MacDonald
- Seumas MacNeill
- Yugoslavia
- Zagreb
- Virginia Beach
- Venice
- Usher Hall
- Strachur
- United States
- Toward Castle
- Split
- Queen's Hall, Dunoon
- Manchester
- Mareshke, Yugoslavia
- Maryland
- Moray House
- Oban
- Korcula, Yugoslavia
- Ljubliana
- Italy
- Islay
- Inellan Hall
- Holy Loch
- Hungary
- Hyde Park
- Esterhazy
- Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
- Dubrovnik
- Dalmatia
- Corran Halls, Oban
- Buckingham Palace
- Ashton-under-Lyme
- Germany
- Yugoslavian Singing
- Yugoslavian Bagpipes
- Yahama Scottish Instrumental Teacher of the Year
- Women's Hour
- Women's Attire in Piping
- Wind Band/Pipe Band Collaboration
- Varnishing Reeds
- Tuning Bagpipes
- Traditional Gaelic Musci
- Teaching Methods
- Taorluaths
- Synthetic Bags
- Subjectivity and Pipe Band Judging
- Structure of Piobaireachd
- Stress in Piping
- Stewarding at Piping Competitions
- Standard Grade Music
- Sound Testing
- Sight Reading
- Sheepskin Bags
- Scottish Teaching Qualifications
- School Music Curriculum and Piping
- School Holidays
- Reed Making
- Piping in School Timetable
- Pipe Band Tutoring
- Piobaireachd Variations
- Physical Education College
- Physical Education
- Pete Shaw Memorial Gold Medal
- O Grade Music
- Novice Juvenile Grade
- Microphones and Bagpipes
- Marriage
- Lesson Plans for Teaching Piping
- Learning by Repetition
- Hide Bags
- Hemping Reeds
- Heat and Reeds
- Health Benefits of Piping
- Gaelic Language
- First Set of Bagpipes
- Finger Exercises
- Dudy
- Drone Reeds
- Doublings
- Children
- Chanter Pitch
- Carnivals
- Blowing Techniques for Bagpipes
- Balvenie Medal 2005
- Bagpipe Scale
- Bagpipe Pitch
- Attitudes to Piping
- Asthma
- Appreciation of Bagpipes
- Ability in Piping
- Women in Piping
- Reading Music
- Practice Chanter
- Competition Piping
- Piobaireachd