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Award-winning pipe band boasts world’s best piper
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Carol Thorbes, 604.291.3039
November 20, 2003
SFU Pipe Band sergeant Jack Lee has won the top international honour in bag-piping, placing first at the annual Glenfiddich Piping Championship at Blair Castle in Pitlochry, Scotland. Lee beat out nine other competitors to win the prestigious international event. To qualify, pipers must have won a major Scottish piping event during the past year.
Lee, a resident of Surrey, B.C., says the competition was keen. He has competed in the Glenfiddich about eight times in the past 20 years or so and has won various prizes. But this is the first time he was named overall winner. The event was held before an audience of about 500 in a grand baronial hall at Blair Castle. "It was a big win and I’m very happy about it for sure," he says.
Lee says the Glenfiddich is considered to be the Masters of piping – an invitation-only event.
Since he started piping at the age of five – 40 years ago – he has won almost every major award in the world of piping. He is also in demand as a teacher of the pipes.
Several generations of the Lee family are pipers or drummers; they inherited their love of Celtic music from Lee’s great grandfather, who emigrated from Glasgow and continued playing the pipes until he was 80.
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Lee, a resident of Surrey, B.C., says the competition was keen. He has competed in the Glenfiddich about eight times in the past 20 years or so and has won various prizes. But this is the first time he was named overall winner. The event was held before an audience of about 500 in a grand baronial hall at Blair Castle. "It was a big win and I’m very happy about it for sure," he says.
Lee says the Glenfiddich is considered to be the Masters of piping – an invitation-only event.
Since he started piping at the age of five – 40 years ago – he has won almost every major award in the world of piping. He is also in demand as a teacher of the pipes.
Several generations of the Lee family are pipers or drummers; they inherited their love of Celtic music from Lee’s great grandfather, who emigrated from Glasgow and continued playing the pipes until he was 80.
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