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When Alex Robertson arâ€" rived in Canada from Scotâ€" land his pet project was to found a "high calibre pipe Thirteen years have passâ€" ed since his arrival, the band which he founded has had many changes, and Alex is no longer its pipe major, but a "high calibre pipe band in this area‘‘ is what we have today. ~ The Highland House Pipe 8 Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, July 10, 1974 o | g #:" s â€" <" _ The sweet sound of the pipes Band which Mr. Robertâ€" son founded in 1963, just two years after his arrival in this country, is today known as the Waterloo Reâ€" Waterloo Stove Kauf Fest CLEAROUT SALE _ COLOR TV WATERLOD STOVE E‘BW_ARDS COINâ€"OP LAUNDRY 26" Westinghouse Color TV in Lakeshore Village 500 Glen Forest Blvd. 885â€"1000 22" TENITH COLOR TV Sale s £Q 5.00 Floor Models â€" all carry full Warranty Easy Budget Terms â€" Free Delivery â€" Buy and Save Table Model â€" Model 4208 Modern Console NOW QOPEN 32 5.00 Pipe Band, a group of proâ€" fessionals whose goal is to win the world championship. The kind of dedication and hard work which they hope will get that chamâ€" pionship for them, sees them practising three times a week as the competition season _ approaches, . and competitions all ever Onâ€" tario and the northern United States on 16 weekâ€" ends during the summer. â€"High point of last year‘s competition season . was placing ninth out of 30 bands Police Association 2b" MOTOROLA COLOR TV Sale : 25" IENITH COLOR TV Sale band Modern Console Model 4513 Deluxe Mediterranean Style at the Scottish Tattoo at the tion where the best bands from all parts of the world took part. Hugh Cameron, a young computer programmer who has been with the band since it was founded and is now its secretaryâ€"treasurer, talked recently about the some of its conquests.. As the Highland House Pipe Band from Woodstock with Alex Robertson as pipe major, the band went to Scot land in 1970 and won Grade 2, the amateur classificaâ€" tion in the world championâ€" ship at Cowal Games, comâ€" peting against the best 102 bands in the world. 32 of them in the Grade 2 classifiâ€" cation. Having _ reached ~~ that pinnacle, the band decided to become professional and in 1971 they tied for first in the Champion Supreme Competition at Fergus. When Mr. Robertson reâ€" tired, Duncan MacLachlan 425" See This Beauty REALLY BIG SAVINGS Come in and became pipe major. * band,"" Mr. Cameron â€"said. ‘"He played with Shots and Dykehead band in Scotland move to Galt where the band was sponsored by the Highâ€" land Fusiliers. Finances are quite a consideration in an organization where the uniforms cost about $350 per person with kilts costing from $90 to $110 and the cost of the instruments bringing a _ bandsman‘s gear to about $700 worth. Prize money is about $300 for a competition but that is divided among the uniâ€" form and travel costs for the 20 people in the band, so the band has to be inâ€" volved in other moneyâ€" raising projects. Trips are the icing on the cake for the members of the band. ‘‘We try to go overâ€" seas to Scotland about every three years,"" said Pipe Major MacLachlan. "It is something for the band to work for, and the only way to find out if you are the best is to meet them on their home ground.‘"" In the fall of 1972 the band began to be sponsored by the Waterloo Regional Police Association where they enjoy the enthusiastic support from the members of the Association and have the ‘advantage of a very The Athlete‘s Foot has the Kâ€"W area‘s largest selecâ€" tion of quality recreational and athletic footwear. Addidas, Puma, Pony, Converse, Stefan, Raichle, and Dunham are among the many internationally famous shoes available at the Athlete‘s Foot. They are available in a wide selection of colors and widths so that people who know how to fit shoes are able to fit you correctly with the right shoe for anything from working around the cottage to climbâ€" ing Mount Everest. 34 KING ST. N. WATERLOO point in the SIZES FROM CHILDREN‘S 10 TO MEN‘S 17 Open Thursday & Friday till 9 their image." Mr. get free concerts during the Tuesday and Sunday pracâ€" tices held at the Recreation Centre. On â€"Thursday eveâ€" ning the practice is at the Police Station in Kitchener, in the gym or on the parking Two members of the Poâ€" lice Association Pipe Band are â€" actually policemen. Pipe Major MacLachlan is a detective in Kitchener detachment _ and _ Nigel Niget Moore is a Waterloo Region ~cadet. â€"But .the 18 other members of the band come from many walks of life, including printers, a teacher and students. They also come from far afield â€" Toronto, Hamilton, Oakville and London. Oneâ€" third to oneâ€"half of the memâ€" bers come from Waterloo Region, Mr. Cameron said, the others from farther afield. One member even comes from Thunder Bay where he is a student, though needless to say, he doesn‘t get to many regular pracâ€" tices. ~ Not all the members of the band have heredity to credit for their interest in pipe bands. Although some do have accents which indiâ€" cate their roots, and six members of the band were ociginally trained in Scotâ€" land. there are exceptions such as John Modrowski, a piper who is a medical stuâ€" 742â€"4061 place for their . **We‘re good for dent at the University of Toronto and Lewis Yeager, the pipe sergaent, who comes from Toronto and is a PhD in biology . women were not allowed traditionally to play, but we are different from other bands. We had a girl piper, Gail Brown of Milton, who was very talented and she and the other playing the have _ traditionally been male oriented, and in many came the first girl in hisâ€" tory to play with the Shot and Dykehead Pipe Band when they won the world championship."‘ The members of the band are mostly young â€" the average age about 22 or 23, according to Mr. Cameron. ‘"Youth is â€" one of the strengths of the band," he said. About half of the memâ€" bers of the band learned to play from old Alex"" while others learned in young people‘s bands such as the Kitchener Legion Band. Playing in a pipe band is physically demanding, ag cording to Mr. Cameug and the increasingly lar number of tattoos and Highâ€" land Games around the country make the summer schedule a heavy one. Two years ago there were half the number of Highland Games that there are now, he said. There are also two girls