today's Worlds dress

**OC Richard** · 13th August 22, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by piperalpha

What the actual mother of Christ is going on with Scottish Power’s pipe bag covers? I hope this doesn’t become a trend.

They wore those at the 2019 Worlds as well, Mylar things over the front half of the bag-covers.

They're supposed to keep the sun from heating up the reeds. Bob Worrall was saying they must be doing their job because Power's tone held...but so did the tone from FMM and Inveraray, who came in ahead of them.

(Another puzzling thing about their pipes is why the Royal Stewart cords?)

It was 84f with 80% humidity today in Glasgow Green. It was nice that the bands had Friday to help get their pipes accustomed to the unusual weather! There were a lot of drifting chanters and drones, and early chanters and late drones, on Friday. Today the pipes were much more settled.

The announced results today were

1. Field Marshal Montgomery (Northern Ireland)
2. Inveraray (Scotland)
3. Scottish Power (Scotland)
4. Saint Lawrence O Toole (Republic of Ireland/Eire)
5. Boghall and Bathgate (Scotland)
6. Simon Fraser University (Canada)

The newcomers all sounded like they belonged! Nice playing from Dunedin (USA) Closkelt (Northern Ireland) and Saint Thomas Alumni (USA).

**OC Richard** · 13th August 22, 04:58 PM

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**kilted redleg** · 14th August 22, 08:53 AM

Nice to see the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards led by Champion piper/solider Ben Duncan won their class 3B. Ben just retired from service and has a job instructing piping at a local school. As a bit of an armchair piping historian it's good to see the military getting back into the competitive piping world, as that's how it was years ago. Regiments would prize the trophies "won in the field" on the piping fields. Also if anyone is interested at the National Piping Center in the book section the Argyll and Sutherland regiment released their volume 2 of pipe tunes this week. Book can be purchased here: https://www.thebagpipeshop.co.uk/col.../books?page=14 Don't know when US dealers will have it.

**imrichmond** · 17th August 22, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

They wore those at the 2019 Worlds as well, Mylar things over the front half of the bag-covers.

They're supposed to keep the sun from heating up the reeds. Bob Worrall was saying they must be doing their job because Power's tone held...but so did the tone from FMM and Inveraray, who came in ahead of them.

Back in the day, when I played with a grade 1 band in southern Ontario summer heat, to keep our reeds cool and provide some needed moisture we used to put a couple of small chunks of ice in our sheepskin bags just before marching up to the line. Less flashy than Scottish Power's solution, but it worked.

**imrichmond** · 17th August 22, 02:38 PM

It's not surprising that the bands opted to wear vests without jackets, given the unusually high temperatures in Glasgow last weekend. Mind you, 40 years ago, we used to compete in similar temperatures in Ontario while wearing full No. 1 dress, as did a great many bands across North America. The current, more relaxed, mode of dress is much more sensible.