16 Mar Pipe Major Robert Colville
Robert Colville has been the Pipe Major of the Hawera Highland Pipe Band for over 25 years. It is said that the task of a leader is to get others from where they are to where they have not been and that a bagpiper (like whiskey) is synonymous to heroism through purity of resolve.
Robert was encouraged to learn piping at a young age by his farther and long serving band member, William Colville. Robert was tutored by our previous Pipe Major, Len Millar.
Click on the mp3 player above to hear Robert on his small pipes. He plays “By the water’s Edge” and the “Jiggernaut” two tunes written by Robert Mathieson. With accompaniment from Stu Millar on other instruments.