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Interviewee: Iain MacDonald
Interviewer: Bill Gallacher
Background: Born in Glasgow to parents from the Isle of Lewis, Iain was taught initially through the Boys’ Brigade, and subsequently by Duncan Johnston. He was a pioneer of piping in the folk scene in the 1970s, playing with the Battlefield Band and Tinkler Maidjie. He is currently the Pipe Major of Neilston and District Pipe Band, a position he has held for a number of years. He took the band to Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism.
Publisher: The National Piping Centre
Date: 02-05-2012
Format: Audio
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Organization:
- Alba
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- Barbados Highland Games
- Barrhead High School
- Battlefield Band
- Bothy Band
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Chieftains
- Clutha
- College of Piping
- Corries Folk Group
- Derry City Council
- Duncan Johnstone School of Piping
- Dutch East India Trading Company
- Dykebar Hospital
- Edinburgh Military Tattoo
- Escola da Gaita
- Glasgow Folk Festival
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary Anaesthetics Department
- Hancock Museum, Newcastle
- Johnstone Maternity Hospital
- Kentigern Folk Band
- Liverpool Fire Brigade
- Lowland and Borders Pipers’ Association
- MacDougall Pipe Makers
- National Piping Centre
- Neilston and District Pipe Band
- Northumbrian Pipers’ Society
- Paisley College of Technology
- Paisley Grammar School
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Planxty
- Real Banda da Gaita
- Rothbury Folk Festival
- Rothbury Pipe Band
- Rotterdam Folk Dance Group
- Rover Scouts Pipe Band
- Royal Ordnance Factory
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
- Scottish Proms
- Springhill School
- Temple Records
- Third Eye Centre
- Tinkler Maidjie
- Tokyo Pipe Band
- Whistlebinkies
- Williamwood High School
- Willowglen Highland Games
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Person:
- Alain Stivell
- Am Fuar
- Angus MacGregor
- Bill Gallagher
- Billy Pigg
- Caley Murray
- Chris Miller
- Dame Evelyn Glennie
- David Burley
- David Munro
- Derek Bell
- Donald MacLean
- Douglas Pincock
- Duncan Johnstone
- Ernie Robertson
- Fin Moore
- Finlay MacDonald
- Fiona MacDonald
- Fraser Laurie
- George McIlwham
- Hamish Moore
- Iain MacDonald (Neilston)
- Iain Plunkett
- Jim Barnes
- Jimmy Anderson
- Jimmy Wilson
- John Foster Charlton
- Jose Manuel Focho
- Jose Manuel Fraga
- Kevin Rosen
- Leo Rosen
- Liam O’ Flynn
- Mike Rowan
- Robert Porterfield
- Robin Morton
- Roddy Murray
- Roy Williamson
- Sean Davey
- Seumas Ennis
- Seumas MacNeill
- Sinki Yamani
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Sylvia Barnes
- Tom Laurie
- William Hamilton
Place:
- Asturias
- Babbity Bowsters
- Barbados
- Bishopton
- Blackgate, Newcastle
- Bohemia
- Cantabria
- Communist Bloc
- Czechoslovakia
- Dublin
- Eastern Europe
- Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
- Great Berneray
- His Nibs Public House
- Isle of Lewis
- Miavaig
- Nagasaki
- Newcastle
- North Ayrshire
- North Uist
- Ourense
- Partick
- Prague
- Renfrewshire
- Strakonice
- Strathbungo
- Victoria Bar
- Wenceslas Square
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Subject:
- Accordion Players
- Analytical Chemistry
- Attitudes to Competition
- BA Traditional Music Degree
- Bagpipe and Other Instruments
- Bagpipe in Ensemble Playing
- Bagpipe in the Key of A
- Bagpipe Key
- Bagpipe Modifications
- Bagpipe Tuner
- Bagpipe Volume
- Bagpiping in Galicia
- Bassoon Reeds
- Bellows Pipes
- Bellows Piping
- Bench Chemist
- Bilingualism
- Biniou
- Breton Music Tradition
- Cabrette
- Career
- Chanter Reed Seat
- Chinese Music
- Chromatic Scale
- Competition Piping
- Composing
- Conical Bore Chanter
- Country and Western Music
- Cross Fingering
- Doubing on E
- Dudy
- Enjoyment of Music
- European Folk Dance Tunes
- Family Background in Piping
- Family Life and Folk Music
- Fiddle Players
- Fire Brigade Uniforms
- Foreign Music
- Gaelic Language
- Gaelic Songs and Piping
- Gaita
- Glasgow Year of Culture
- Growth of Piping
- Laboratory Technician
- Learning Experiences
- Matched Chanters
- Music Sessions
- Northumbrian Piping
- Norwegian Music Tradition
- Nursing
- Oboe Reeds
- Parades
- Pastoral Pipes
- Pipe Bag Making
- Pipe Band Competitions
- Pipe Makers
- Piping in Folk Music
- Piping in Primary School
- Radio
- Reading Music
- Rebored Practice Chanter
- Records
- Reel to Reel Tapes
- Repertoire
- Rock and Roll Music
- Rock Band Singing
- Rock Bands and Piping
- Shuttle Pipes
- Singer Sewing Machine
- Small Pipes
- Stage Fright
- Swedish Music Tradition
- Tamla Mo’town
- Technique
- Transition to Bagpipes
- Tunes
- Turning Lathe
- Uilleann Piping
- Whistles
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