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Interviewee: Graham Richardson
Interviewer: Billy Hutchison
Background: A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Graham was initially taught locally by the late Kenny Stoddart (whose son Norman is also the subject of an interview) and by the late Pipe Major Donald MacLean. After National Service with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, he joined the City of Glasgow Police (subsequently Strathclyde Police) and was a member of the successful Strathclyde Police Pipe Band of the 1980s.
Coverage: 1950-2012
Publisher: The National Piping Centre
Date: 08-03-2012
Format: Audio
Subjects & Keywords
Country:
- Aden
- Czech Republic
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
County:
- Argyllshire
Family:
- MacCrimmon
Instrument:
- Speckled Bagpipe of Dunvegan
Organization:
- British Army
- Cameron Barracks
- City of Glasgow Police
- City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- Glasgow Highland Club
- Isle of Skye Pipe Band
- Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band
- Piobaireachd Society
- Portree Pipe Band
- Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
- Shotts Highland Games
- Strathclyde Police Pipe Band
- Strathendrick and District Pipe Band
- United States Army
Person:
- Alistair Campsie
- Angus Lawrie
- Colin Johnston
- Donald Thomson
- Duncan MacDonald
- Fred Morrison
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- John MacColl
- John MacDonald (Seonaidh Roidein)
- John MacFadyen
- John Wilson (Strathclyde Police)
- Kenny Stoddart
- Lieutenant Colonel Colin Mitchell
- Lieutenant Colonel David Murray
- Murray Kirsop
- Norman Stoddart
- Pipe Major Angus MacDonald (North Uist)
- Pipe Major Donald MacLean
- Pipe Major Donald MacLeod
- Pipe Major Evan MacRae
- Pipe Major Iain MacLellan
- Pipe Major John D Burgess
- Pipe Major John K MacAllister
- Pipe Major Peter R MacLeod
- Pipe Major Robert Hardie
- Pipe Major Ronald Lawrie
- Pipe Major Thomas MacAllister
- Pipe Major William Lawrie
- Pipe Major William Ross
- Roderick MacDonald (Roddy Roidein)
- Sir Andrew Sloan
- Sir John Orr
- Sir Lesley Sharp
- Sir Patrick Hamill
- St Valery
Prize:
- European Pipe Band Championships
- Guinness Trophy
- World Pipe Band Championships
Publication:
- College of Piping Tutor
- Johnson and Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides
- Logan’s Tutor Book
- The MacCrimmon Legend and the Madness of Angus MacKay
Ship:
- HMS Newfoundland
Tune:
- Aunt Grace
- Barren Rocks of Aden
- John MacColl’s March to Kilbowie Cottage
- King George V’s Army
- Lament for the Children
- Leaving Glenuqhuart
- Major Manson at Clachantrushal
- Piper in the Cesspool
- The Conundrum