Tour Scotland Video Vale of Atholl Pipe Band Scottish Highland Games Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Vale of Atholl Pipe Band at the Scottish Highland Games on ancestry visit to North Inch Park in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This wonderful band is from Highland Perthshire. The band was founded in 1906 as the Vale of Atholl Pipers Association, with the Marquess of Tullibardine as patron and led by pipe major Mitchell Pirnie. The band started in competing in competition in 1931 under the leadership of Robert Pirnie, and played at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Ian Duncan, brother of Gordon Duncan, joined the band in 1965 and took over as pipe major in 1973. The band first entered competitions organised by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association in 1977, starting in Grade 4, but by 1983 the band had been promoted to Grade 1. The band came second in the Champion of Champions table during the 1980s, and won the European and British Championship titles in 1988 and 1989 respectively. In 1993, the band reached a sponsorship agreement with Macnaughtons of Pitlochry, and changed its tartan from traditional Murray of Atholl tartan to the Muted Macnaughton. Andy Renwick succeeded Ian Duncan as pipe major at the end of 2000, and in 2002 the band secured a sponsorship deal with Robert Wiseman Dairies, changing its name to Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl Pipe Band.

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