Shotts innovate at Dumbarton 2010

The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band playing in the Grade 1 competition at The Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in Levengrove Park, Dumbarton on Saturday 22 May 2010.

There were a couple of interesting innovations in this performance. You can see the band is using two bass drums (with different tunings), and the Pipe Major, Robert Mathieson, leads the band from the middle of the front row of seven pipers.

The drum corps won the Grade 1 Scottish drumming championship and the band was placed third overall. Tunes played are Scalasaig, Centinnial Jig, Ailish and Rebecca's Jig, Tears of Gold, Susan MacLeod, Retro Reel, Craigie Park, and Busindre Reel.

The band is celebrating its centenary year in 2010.

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[bontyjarron]

im sorry but i don't understand how its possible to have an early chanter in grade one PARTICULARLY at a major?!?!

[dronechorus]

@bontyjarron I guess it's nerves. So it is particularly likely to happen at a major. There were at least two in the qualifying grade 1 at the Worlds this year and they're not unknown in the final. However, I am not sure that there is an early chanter here. I went back to my source files and cannot detect it. I wouldn't post a video of a band if I thought there had been an early chanter.

[bigsteve1984]

2 basses and the pipe major not front right isn't anything new. Toronto Police Pipe Band has had 2 basses for 3 years now, and we've had PM's all over the front rank for ages. Then again, we're a few 1000 miles away in Ontario.

[dronechorus]

@bigsteve1984 The music of the Toronto Police Pipe Band is perhaps better known over here than you think. It's more than innovative; it's revolutionary. There are many here looking forward to seeing and hearing the band at the Cowal Highland Gathering.

[bontyjarron]

@dronechorus you can definitely hear one....

[TheScotFiddler]

Do they add a beat at the beginning of the second time through the A-part of Scalasaig? I think I count an extra beat in the second measure.

[MrPiperdoon]

Beautiful performance, well recorded as well. Thank you for posting this.

[chgeo]

@bontyjarron

lol. sounds more like a cat mewing than an early chanter... I'm not sure either way

[egosumultimaton]

the city of newport pipes and drums have 2 bass drums too they sound awesome

[Maddplaid]

good stuff

[HaleyMackay94]

sounding amazing as usual shame about the early chanter though. sounds even better with the two bass drums!

[bontyjarron]

@dronechorus fair enough, but there is definitely an early chanter at 11 seconds as someone strikes in.

[k4dordy]

Love those blue mallets!