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George McIlwhamInterviewer
Iain MacDonald (Neilston)Background
George McIlwham has had a distinguished career as principal Piccolo and Flute with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He is also a piper, and was taught by Pipe Major Robert Reid. He was one of the first pipers to play with a symphony orchestra, and has featured as a solo player in a number of pieces, including Donald of the Burthens by Ian Whyte, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' "Orkney Wedding with Sunrise".Publisher
The National Piping CentreDate
2012-11-20Format
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Event Organization- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Henderson's Bagpipe Makers
- Hutcheson's Grammar School
- Milngavie Pipe Band
- Scottish Music Information Centre
- Caird Hall
- Linn Choir
- St Laurence O' Toole Pipe Band
- Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
- Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
- Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band
- Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band
- Strathclyde Police Pipe Band
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- College of Piping
- National Piping Centre
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- British Caledonian Airways Pipe Band
- 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band
- Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
- George McIlwham
- Iain MacDonald (Neilston)
- Finlay MacDonald
- Archibald MacPhedran
- Donald MacLean (Wee Donald MacLean)
- Franz Schubert
- Professor Waller
- Sir Ernst Bullock
- Ian White
- Patrick Mor MacCrimmon
- Hector Cruikshank
- Dimitri Shostokovich
- James Lockheart
- Norman Delmar
- Ernst von Dohnanyi
- Nigel Richards
- Richard Parkes
- Terry Tully
- Pipe Major John D Burgess
- Donald MacPherson
- Pipe Major Angus MacDonald
- Alex Duthart
- Duncan Johnston
- Ian Sutherland
- Sir Alexander Gibson
- Nevill Garden
- Paddy Donovan
- David Ingles
- Dr Harry Gardiner
- Bill McCue
- Robert Crawford
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
- Eddie McGuire
- Pipe Major Matthew Kennedy
- Willie Connell
- Pipe Major Robert Hardie
- Pipe Major Ian McLellan
- Jean Cornwell
- Arwell Hughes
- Seumas MacNeill
- Pipe Major Robert Reid
- Chromatic Scale
- Border Pipes
- Electronic Bagpipes
- Folk Music
- Pipeline
- Strathtone Reeds
- Diatonic Scale
- Chanter Tape
- Temepered Scale
- Just Intonation
- Calgacus
- Bass Drum Tuning
- Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
- E Flat
- Tam O Shanter
- B Flat
- Pipe Band Drumming
- Bagpipe Chanter in B Flat
- Bagpipe Chanter in A
- Donald of the Burthens
- Faust Legend
- Overture of the Bohemian Girls
- Flute
- Marriage of Figaro
- MacBeth (Verdi)
