Last Updated or created 2023-07-18

Some dates from my notes

1983 November – First lesson on the Practice Chanter
1984 June 23 – Bagpipe contest in Hengelo (spectator)
1985 April 27 – Got my own set of pipes!
1985 Juli 16-19th – First public performance (solo)
1985 August 28th – Started in the Concord Pipe Band
1986 May 7th – Complete uniform
1986 June 14th – Contest Swifterband (6th place grade 4)
(1986 12 performances with the band, 11 solo performances)
1987 June 13th – Contest Swifterband
199? Stopped playing with Concord Pipe Band
199? Started at The City of Amsterdam Pipe Band
199? Played with 48th Highlanders of Holland
2001 Started as a tutor Highland Valley Pipe Band
2008 Stopped playing in Pipe Bands

2001-2008 Tapsalteerie Folkband
2002 February – Got my Smallpipes
2008 October – Got my Gavie Borderpipes
2009-current Nae Bother Folkband
2011 August – Got my Uilleann Pipes
2017 February – Northumbrian Pipes