We’ve considered changes in format.

We’ve pondered competition options.

What about the music itself?

Without beating a dead horse, or maybe we should just acknowledge that we are preaching to the choir here: there are just over 800 settings of the 313 tunes in the primary sources alone! Many of the settings are a bit tough to read, some are just partial notes, but honestly: that’s a lot of music!

Add to it the settings in Binneas is Boreag, in Jimmy McIntosh’s Ceol Mor, C. S. Thomason’s Ceol Mor, David Glen and many others, in addition to the canonical settings of the Piobaireachd Society and Kilberry books, and we are talking about an astonishing wealth of musical possibilities.

Add to that, when we consider the tunes that have been composed since 1840 (which will be a new website at Alt Pibroch Club in the months ahead; the Piobaireachd Society is also set to publish a Volume 16 of late, original material as well): what a remarkable treasure trove of materials we have available to us!

We are musicians. Fundamentally, we perform music. Whether we do it in our home or on the boards - that is what we do.

Any other musician would rejoice at the plurality of interpretive options that we have at our disposal.

It’s time we pick up this material, embrace the options, and play!