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Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band
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| Established |
1906
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| Location |
Atholl, Scotland
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| Grade |
1
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| Pipe Major |
Andy Renwick
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| Drum Sergeant |
Paul Turner
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| Notable Honours |
3rd place, World Pipe Band Championships: 1989, 1990
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| Website |
www.thevale.org |
The Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band is a competitive grade one pipe band. The band has placed highly in the Major Scottish competitions and the World Pipe Band Championships since at least the late 1980s. Sponsorship is currently by Robert Wiseman Dairies, thoughin the past it has been by Macnaughtons and ScotRail. "The Vale" has continued to be consistent in high level competition, placing 7th at the 2007 World Championships.[1][2]
[edit] References
| Grade I Pipe Bands ( v • d • e ) |
| Scotland |
Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band, Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band, Fife Constabulary Pipe Band, Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band, Scottish Power Pipe Band, Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, Sprit of Scotland Pipe Band, Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, Tayside Police Pipe Band, Vale of Atholl Pipe Band |
| Ireland |
Ballinderry Bridge Pipe Band, Ballycoan Pipe Band, Bleary & District Pipe Band, Cullybackey Pipe Band, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band |
| Canada |
78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band, Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band, Peel Regional Police Pipe Band, Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, Toronto Police Pipe Band, Triumph Street Pipe Band, Windsor Police Pipe Band |
| Australia |
Australia Highlanders Pipe Band, City of Blacktown Pipe Band, Queensland Highlanders Pipe Band, St. Marys Band Club Pipe Band, Western Australia Police Pipe Band |
| New Zealand |
Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band, City of Wellington Pipe Band, Dalewool Auckland & District Pipe Band, Hamilton Caledonian Pipe Band, Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Band, New Zealand Police Pipe Band |
| United States |
City of Washington Pipe Band, Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, Oran Mor Pipe Band |
| Bold links indicate winners of the World Pipe Band Championships. |
