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Graham RichardsonInterviewer
Billy HutchisonBackground
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
1950-2012Publisher
The National Piping CentreDate
08-03-2012Format
audioSubject & Keywords related
Country County Event Family Instrument Organization- Portree Pipe Band
- Shotts Highland Games
- Strathendrick and District Pipe Band
- United States Army
- Cameron Barracks
- City of Glasgow Police
- City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band
- Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band
- Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- Strathclyde Police Pipe Band
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Piobaireachd Society
- Isle of Skye Pipe Band
- Glasgow Highland Club
- Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
- British Army
- St Valery
- Sir John Orr
- Sir Patrick Hamill
- Sir Lesley Sharp
- Sir Andrew Sloan
- Pipe Major Ronald Lawrie
- Pipe Major Thomas MacAllister
- Pipe Major William Lawrie
- Pipe Major Iain MacLellan
- Pipe Major Peter R MacLeod
- Pipe Major John K MacAllister
- Murray Kirsop
- Norman Stoddart
- Pipe Major Angus MacDonald (North Uist)
- Pipe Major Donald MacLean
- Pipe Major Evan MacRae
- Lieutenant Colonel Colin Mitchell
- Kenny Stoddart
- John MacColl
- John Wilson (Strathclyde Police)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Duncan MacDonald
- Angus Lawrie
- Donald Thomson
- Alistair Campsie
- Colin Johnston
- John MacFadyen
- Lieutenant Colonel David Murray
- Pipe Major John D Burgess
- Pipe Major Robert Hardie
- Pipe Major William Ross
- John MacDonald (Seonaidh Roidein)
- Roderick MacDonald (Roddy Roidein)
- Fred Morrison
- The MacCrimmon Legend and the Madness of Angus MacKay
- Johnson and Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides
- College of Piping Tutor
- Logan's Tutor Book
- 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
- Alba
- 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)
