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The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band - PipeBand, Scotland, United Kingdom

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The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band

Welcome to the official web site of The House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band - 15 times winners of the RSPBA World Pipe Band Championships.
Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band was formed in 1910 under the leadership of Pipe Major Dugald MacFarlane, under very humble circumstances indeed in that the band practiced in the kitchen of his home, a room and kitchen in a miner’s row known as a ‘But and Ben’. So conscientious were they that within four years, by hard work and perseverance, they purchased their first uniform of McKenzie tartan and from then on entered for every competition available without success, until in 1929 when Pipe Major Tom McAllister took charge, from whence they went on from one success to another to win the Grade 2 championship in 1935.

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