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