by EMDEE » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:49 am
The band in the Steamboat Inn photo, as far as I know, was not known as Ceannloch Pipe Band, unless anyone else knows different. To my knowledge, the name Ceannloch Pipe Band was adopted post WW2, around 1948 when a new pipe band was formed led by Pipe Major William Wilson. At that time there was also the Campbeltown Ex-Servicemens Pipe Band, led by Pipe Major Peter McCallum. I think that the predominance of military service in these days provided a supply of pipers and drummers for local bands, and the town sustained both pipe bands for a while in the late 1940s.
The Ceannloch Pipe Band continued as such until 1974 when Pipe Major Tony Wilson took over, and at this point the name was changed to Campbeltown Pipe Band.
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