Keydet Piper

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Keydet Piper

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Basic Facts

  • Origins: US east coast
  • Current residence: Corvallis, OR, USA
  • Age: old enough to run for President, not old enough to retire
  • Day job: engineer

Piping Summary

  • Instructors 
    • Burt Mitchell
    • Lyric Todill
    • Dan Cole
    • Jason Barth
    • Peter Kent
  • First lesson: August 1998
  • First performance: March 1999
  • First solo competition: July 2001
  • Solo competition grades 
    • 4: 2004
    • 3: 2005-2006
    • 2: 2007-2009
    • 1: 2010-present

Band History

  • Virginia Military Institute Pipes and Drums, Lexington, VA, 1998-2002 (pipe major 2001-2002), noncompetitive/Grade 5
  • Baltimore City Pipe Band, summer 2000, noncompetitive
  • Macdonald Pipe Band, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003-2006, Grade 4
  • Graham Highlanders of St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, VT, 2006-2008, Grade 4
  • MacMillan Pipe Band, Rockville, MD, 2010-2012, Grade 3
  • MacMillan-Birtles Pipe Bands, Rockville, MD, 2011, Grade 4 (playing instructor)
  • Portland Metro Pipe Band, Portland, OR, 2013-2019, Grade 2
  • Willamette Valley Pipes and Drums, Salem, OR, 2020-2025, noncompetitive (pipe major 2020-2024)

My pipes

  • Drones: Henderson, circa 1949
  • Drone reeds: Crozier glass fiber
  • Bag: Gannaway 
    • Zipper and collars: none
  • Chanter: blackwood Naill, circa 1993


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