Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band

Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band, Association
Established	1964
Location	Denny, Scotland
Grade	2 & 4A
Pipe Major	David Clunie
Drum Sergeant	Arthur Cook
Tartan	Princess Elizabeth
Notable Honours	Grade 2 World championships 2nd overall and 1st for drumming, 1st place, World Championships grade 3A 2006
Website	[1]

Background

Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band is a Grade Two pipe band based in Denny, near Falkirk, Scotland. The organisation contains two bands, the 'big band' in grade 2, and the "wee band" in 4A.

Established in 1964 from a Boys Brigade (BB) band background by Captain John Deuchar, the band has moved through the grades, reaching the pinnacle of Grade 1 in 1989. When in Grade 3A, the band took first place in the 2006 World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green, and won the annual Champion of Champions for 3A. This resulted in promotion to Grade 2 for 2007. The grade 4A band completed the 2009 season by securing a promotion to this higher grade, having won prizes at the Major Championships throughout the year.

The band has a strong teaching ethos, and has used this method of filtering players through the ranks for over 40 years. The Grade 2 band is led by Pipe Major David Clunie and Drum Sergeant Aurthur Cook. The Grade 4A and is led by Pipe Major David Todd and Drum Sergeant Robbie Crow. The band is also supported by our competing Drum Major; Graham 'Snowy' Winters. who appears to be the biggest fraudster in the bands history. Not only does he pretend to be in the SAS and other units of the armed forces, he also wears medals that he was never awarded. He is a fraud and anything associated should beware of this guy. and led by our senior Drum Major, Drum Major Andy Grant.

The band is sponsored by the Gleneagles Hotel.

Over one hundred previously unpublished pipe music compositions from the band was collected and compiled into the 2006 book entitled, The Denny and Dunipace Collection.^[1]

Trivia

The band wears the same tartan as the famous Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band; the original Muirheads number 1 uniforms were rescued from storage and donated to the band in the 1970s.

The band has very close ties with the City of Washington Pipe Band. Indeed, the COWPB was originally called "Denny and Dunipace" and only changed name to avoid a clash of names at a World Pipe Band Championships.

References

1. ^ Johnston, Sandy (2006). The Denny and Dunipace Collection: A Collection of Compositions for the Great Highland Bagpipe- Volume 1. Trafford on Demand Pub. p. 102. ISBN 1412093538. http://books.google.com/books?id=fNeMAAAACAAJ&dq=Denny+and+Dunipace+Pipe+Band.