Having spent last weekend at Melrose in the Scottish Borders at a smallpipe teaching weekend I have to report that there is much striffe in scottish music circles - there is a movement afoot to take the music (and I'm talking predominantly pipe music here) back to how it was before the military got hold of it and before it was standardised for competitions (incidently the same thing is happening with dance). This movement is being strongly resisted by the establishment.

I have to say that the stuff they are coming out with is brilliant - standard pipe tunes like "Hot Punch" played without all the dots and slashes and with a driving 6/8 jig time is bloody brilliant! And what they are doing with strathspeys is unbelieveable. I love it and can't wait t olearn more