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retire from his position as leading drummer, and that corps member Blair Brown would be his replacement. but in his own statement
Kilpatrick stated that his removal from the band was "the final act in a long-running, premeditated and well-planned coup d’état orchestrated by Ryan Canning, Blair Brown, Glenn Brown and perhaps three other members of the Shotts band." Emmett Conway took over as pipe major of the band in late 2018.
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Duthart returned in 1970, and in the next twelve years before Tom retired the band won a further 23 major championships, including the 1980
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Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band was formed in 1910 by Pipe Major Dugald MacFarlane. The band purchased its first uniform with kilts of the McKenzie tartan in 1914, but despite entering many competitions, the band did not attain competitive success until Pipe Major Tom McAllister took the
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British Championship on the first attempt. After a suspension of competitions during the
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