The Pipe Major Angus MacDonald MBE died in June 1999. He was the first Principal Instructor of The Piping Centre. Born in Cardonald Glasgow, and educated at the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, he was introduced to the bagpipes by Pipe Major George Sanderson.
In December 1953 he enlisted as a boy soldier at The Scots Guards Training School at Pirbright, Surrey, where he was much influenced by the two Roe brothers, and Alex MacDonald, the Sovereign's Piper. He was promoted Pipe Major in 1965. In 1980 he was again promoted to Warrant Officer Class One as the Senior Instructor at The Army School of Piping and also appointed as personal piper to the Governor at Edinburgh Castle. He was also made Member of the British Empire. Angus retired from army service 1983.
His record as a competitive piper was unsurpassed. He won all the major piping awards including the Former Winners March, Strathspey and Reel at Oban, Inverness and London, The Clasp at Inverness, the Bratach Gorm, and the Glenfiddich Championship, some many times over.
The Piping Centre has set up the "Pipe Major Angus MacDonald Piping
Scholarship" in order to encourage and assist young pipers learn the art of piping.
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