When in Scotland...
PA Wellington Those acknowledged masters of the pipes, the Scots, have lost the premier piping award of their country — and to a New Zealander. The defeat was inflicted on them by Murray Henderson, of South Canterbury, the first piper outside Scotland to take the gold clasp for piobarireachd.
This exclusive competition is open only to pipers who have already won the Highland Society’s gold medal at Inverness, and Mr Henderson took that last year —
becoming the second piper outside Scotland to be awarded the medal since competition began in 1781.
The other outsider was New Zealander, Lewis Turrell, now of Invercargill, who routed the Scots’ opposition in 1958. Mr Henderson, who achieved his distinction at the Northern Meeting at Inverness, was taught in New Zealand by Mr Donald Bain and has been in Scotland for the ’ .st two years, studying under James Macintosh, of Dundee, a pupil of the Queen’s Pipers at Balmoral, R. B. Nicol and the late R. U. Brown.
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