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Chris Armstrong (piper)
Scottish bagpiper (b. 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chris Armstrong BEM (born 2 February 1980) is a bagpiper from Scotland and pipe major of the ScottishPower Pipe Band.
Life
Armstrong was born in Bathgate on 2 February 1980.[1] He started learning the bagpipes at the age of 6, and played in the Torphichen and Bathgate juvenile band, where he was taught by Pipe Major John Matheson.[2][3]
After a spell of not competing in a band, and then playing in a number of different groups, he became pipe sergeant of Torphichen and Bathgate Pipe Band for two years.[4]
He became pipe major of the David Urquhart Travel Pipe Band in 2004,[5] and then in 2006 became leader of the ScottishPower Pipe Band.[6]
He is an instructor at the National Piping Centre,[4] and also teaches at Kilmarnock Schools pipe band.[7] Armstrong also runs a business producing drone reeds, and has designed a range of bagpipes that are produced by Wallace Bagpipes.[8]
He favours a high-pitched chanter.[9]
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Solo results
He has won major prizes for both pibroch and light music.[10]
- Winner of the Former Winners March, Strathspey and Reel at the Argyllshire Gathering in 2001 and 2011
- Winner of the Gold medal (piping) at the Northern Meeting in 2003
- Winner of the Bratach Gorm in 2007
Discography
- Notes In Ma Heid (1997)
- Quantum Leap (1999)
- X-Treme (2003)
Bibliography
- Notes frae ma Heid Volume 1
- Notes frae ma Heid Volume 2
- The Collection
- RE:Tradition
References
External links
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