The overall champion at the 6th annual competition was Thomas Fallon from Edinburgh. Thomas is 19 and this was his first appearance at the Lochnell. He is a piper with Field Marshal Montgomery. Thomas received the Lochnell Championship Cup and the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society Bronze Star and £200.
Magnus Stone (l), from Massachusetts, won the Piobaireachd, and Chris McCartan (r) from Lochgilpead, won the MSR. Magnus received £120 and the Jimmy McIntosh Memorial Piobaireachd Trophy, presented by Mrs Joyce McIntosh. Chris received £120 and the William McCallum Snr. Memorial Chanter presented by McCallum Bagpipes.
Each piper had to submit four tunes of his own choice, tunes given in the final tuning room. There were eight invitees. The full results were as follows:
Piobaireachd
1 Magnus Stone, Lament for the Earl of Antrim
2 Thomas Fallon, Rout of Glen Fruin
3 Liam Nicolson, King’s Taxes
4 Malachi Johanssen, Macleod of Raasay’s Salute
MSR
1 Chris McCartan, Arthur Bignold, John Roy Stewart, Drumlithie
2 Kyle Cameron, Glasgow Skye Association, Hector MacLean, Brown Haired Maid
3 Thomas Fallon, MacLean of Pennycross, Lady Louden, Broadford Bay
4 Andrew Pattison, Stirlingshire Militia, Cat Lodge, Lt. Col. DJS Murray
Lochnell winners (L to R) Magnus Stone, Thomas Fallon and Chris McCartan. Image courtesy Piping Press
