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Muirhead and Sons Pipe Band was a pipe band based in Grangemouth, Scotland. The band was highly successful, winning the World Pipe Band Championships a total of eight times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Champions )〕 This total has been surpassed only by Strathclyde Police, Shotts and Dykehead, and Field Marshal Montgomery pipe bands who held the title twenty-one, fifteen, and ten times respectively, and equalled by the Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band which also won eight times. == History == The band was named after, and affiliated with, the company Muirhead & Sons, a sawmill based in Grangemouth and founded by George A. Muirhead in the 1880s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scottish Post Office Directories )〕 Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band was founded in 1928, and started competing in 1932. After a hiatus during World War II, the band reformed in 1946.〔 It won all the Major Championships in Grade 2 in 1948, and was therefore promoted to Grade 1. The pipe band won the World Championships in 1955, 1956 and 1961 under the leadership of Pipe Major Jackie Smith.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Championship Winning Pipe Bands )〕 Under Robert G. Hardie the band won the World Championships in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 This run of five consecutive wins was a record until the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band won six times in a row between 1981 and 1986, a record that still stands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Strathclyde Police Pipe Band )〕 Jim Hutton was leading drummer when the band won the World Championships in 1961.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=022: Jim Hutton )〕 David Hutton was pipe seargeant for all eight of the band's World Championship victories. The band was disbanded in 1978, the year of its 50th anniversary.〔 The City of Victoria Pipe Band in British Columbia was founded by James Troy on the model of Muirhead and Sons and Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James W. Troy )〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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