The competition will be held on May 14-15 in Herning, Denmark.

More information can be found www.clausreiss.dk/soc2005/soc2005.asp.

Great to see that quite a few have found the new discussion forum and actually started to use it. For your convenience I have made a number of additions to the forum.

• It is possible to get the forum messages as an email digest, either daily or weekly (sundays) if you don't want to check the actual website that often.
• The poll system has been updated to allow for multiple selection polls.
• The forum start page now shows the latest news (from the Announcements forum) and the latest posts from any forum. This should make it easier to see what has happened in a glance.
• You can attach images and files to your posts. Please don't abuse this facility, since the files will take up space on the PBAS web server, and we don't have that much room.

Keep the discussions coming everybody!

In connection with the Scandinavian Championships for pipers and drummers 2005, The Pipe Band Association of Scandinavia invites all Scandinavian players to compose a hornpipe of at least four parts for the Great Highland Bagpipe. The winning tune will be played and the winner announced at the prize giving ceremony at the Scandinavian Championships 2005.

The tunes will be judged by persons assigned by the AGM of the PBAS. The committee of the PBAS or persons assigned to judge the tunes may not take part in the contest. Protests regarding the decision on the winning suite will not be accepted.

Tunes should be clearly written in standard notation for the Great Highland Bagpipe. Each person is only allowed one entry. To ensure that the judges do not know who wrote which tunes, the music should not be marked with the composer's name, neither should the name of the tunes be written on the music. The music should be sent by post or email (PDF-file or JPG-file) to the chairman of the PBAS, a separate sheet or the email should state the composers name and address and the name of the tune (if any). Entries failing to fulfil these rules may be disqualified.

The winning tunes might be renamed by the PBAS. The main copyright of all tunes submitted will remain with the composers, but the PBAS has the right to publish the tunes in order to make them available to the Scandinavian piping community without paying any fees to the composers. The music sheets will not be returned to the competitors.

Entries should be sent to the chairman of the PBAS no later than 15 April, 2005 at the following address:

PBAS – Hornpipe Contest
c/o Mats d Hermansson
Erik Dahlbergsgatan 22 A
SE 411 26 GÖTEBORG, Sverige

or Email: mats@bagpipe.se