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Welcome to the Highland Thistle Pipe Band's website!

We are proud to be more a bunch of friends who enjoy playing music together, and having a few drinks (now that's an understatement!), than a competing pipe band. We are based in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires (that's in Argentina, in case you were wondering).

We perform in several events during the year in support of the local British community and in events that promote Scottish music and culture. If you want to catch one of our shows check out our schedule. We are available for paying gigs, although we are a bit picky on when and where we play. However, if you need us to liven up a gathering, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The band was formed by what we euphemistically call the seniors in April 1982, right in the midst of the Malvinas War (Falklands if you are such inclined) although that had nothing to do with it. The story goes that they had a few too many drinks in Dicken's Pub (a local pub in Olivos) and decided: what the hell, we'll form our own band and do whatever we want! Our first P/M was Ronnie Smink, who skippered the ship up until 2005, when he sort of decided he'd had enough of us bunch of misfits and retired to his country club house. You can read more about the history of piping in South America here.

Oscar Llobenes took over as P/M and, musician that he is, decided we needed to concentrate on the way we sounded... well what does he know, right? Well, we did win theScottish Pipe Band Association of South America (SPBASA) "Best South American Pipe Band 2010" title!


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DrPazo Propper term for bagpipe player 4 Jul 5 2011, 7:55 PM EDT by charlie_catt
Thread started: Jun 14 2011, 5:21 AM EDT  Watch
I've been playing the bagpipes for over 25 years and now play in "professional" grade and serve as an adjudicatorin GHB competitions. I speak 12 languages and play about 14 different kinds of bagpipes. My comment is that I was "perplexed" when I traveled to Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotá, and hear bagpipers calling themselves "gaiteros" instead of the propper Spanish tern "Gaitista". We do not call someone who play the violin a "violinero" or someone who plays the guitar "Guitarrero". I am a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and have sudied at the College of Piping in Glasgow.
Can someone please enlighten me in this usage of the word "gaitero"? Even in Spain we do not use that term.

Thank you and kindest regards to all.

Dr. Raphael Pazo
Lodi, California U.S.A.
www.californiabagpiper.com
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