find it in Scotland ??? 

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO FIND IN SCOTLAND? LET US HELP YOU FIND IT.   

From personalised golfing goods to a Stags-Horn Handled Sgian Dubh. From the very best of Scottish Jewellery to your Clan badges and belt buckles. From a picture of your favourite Scottish team picking up their cup/league winners medals from whichever year to a copy of the local newspaper from the actual day. 

~ ~ In this find-it-in-scotland   section, you'll find lists of suppliers for all manner of goods and services you're likely to need here.  On an ongoing basis, we'll be adding to these, and if you have any suggestions for particular types of suppliers, these will all be considered. These sections will be for what I would term "hard goods" - i.e. things like Car Hire, Restaurants, Scottish Gifts, Entertainments, Books, and so on.  

     WE WILL also, in our Scot-talk interactive site, offer you the facility to seek missing friends and relatives, or ask for help in finding items perhaps not readily available - like old photographs of specific areas, special types of gifts, out-of-print books. Or ideas for organising special occasions...

  ...Do you want a special gift, like an engraved Quaich? Do you need some help to think of one? How about a few lines in Scots, for a special occasion? An up-to-date picture of the place where your roots are? - or an old one! A few lines in Scots for a special occasion, a specially written toast in Scots or Gaelic (if you're willing to try it) for any occasion. If you have a special need, let us know; we will help, if we can.

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[ The Quaich has a rich heritage in Scotland - indeed, this is a uniquely Scottish invention, having no apparent connection to any other European drinking vessel. It's a traditional Scottish drinking vessel to offer a guest a cup of welcome and also as a farewell drink, usually a dram of whisky. Travellers would often carry a quaich with them. They were used for whisky and brandy but larger quaichs were used for ale. (The largest surviving examples hold about 1.5 pints). It's believed that one of its ancestors was the scallop shell, in which drams of whisky were taken in the Highlands and Islands. Like the shells, quaichs were always wide and shallow. The distinctive shape has been fixed now for possibly more than four hundred years.]

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...and another not-so-common gift, or perhaps to fulfil an ambition...  

"So ye want tae be a Piper, then..."

...Students from as far away as Germany and Japan are being taught to pay the Bagpipes over the Internet.

The National Piping Centre in Glasgow is teaching via the Skype videophone system, and currently has pupils from 41 countries on its books. Internet music lessons have been run for some years for other instruments, but the technology standards have only recently become good enough for the Pipes - and new Webcam development is under way that will follow the moving teacher, rather than forcing him/her to remain static while playing. The National Piping Centre website gives full details of these courses, for anyone who might like to learn the Pipes in the privacy of his or her own home.

The website says..."The Great Highland Bagpipe, perhaps the best known of Scotland's musical instruments and an ambassador for Scotland throughout the world, is accorded new prominence by the founding of The National Piping Centre. We serve as a national and international centre of excellence for the instrument and its music. Close to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, we incorporate a school with rehearsal rooms and an Auditorium, not only for the Highland pipes but also Scottish Smallpipes, Uillean Pipes, Fiddle, Accordian and Drumming. There is also a museum and interpretation centre, and a reference library, as well as conference facilities and a hotel. The National Piping Centre provides facilities of the very highest quality for both the piping and non-piping fraternity. Visitors and regulars, from both home and abroad, will equally enjoy the experience, whether they come for study, performance, or simply pleasure."

So, if you are coming to Scotland, and have any interest in the Scottish Piping Traditions, or the Drumming, Fiddling, or Accordianing, this Centre would be well worth adding to your itinerary.

Links to the site are:- homepage...http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk; and for the internet tuition... http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/tuition/online-tuition/

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