Bullseye
A Turnbull Clan Publication
Founder: John
Turnbull, Scotland
Founder: Dorothy Berk, United States
President, Wally Turnbull
Janet Turnbull Schwierking, Editor
Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2004
Steve Turnbull and the Catamount Pipe Band
The Catamount Pipe Band was formed four years ago in Oct, 2000. In 2002 playing as a Grade V band they were ranked third out of 70 or so in the EUSPBA (Eastern US Pipe Band Assoc.) and so were then moved up to a Grade IV. At NHHG this year they came in FIRST in Grade IV. They have a chance of moving up to a Grade III but do not know if they will ask for it. If told to be in Grade III, they will have no choice. If they request to move up to a Grade III, their history in the six competitions they did this year will be checked out. Steve Turnbull is the bass drummer for Grade IV. He competed as a soloist against two other bass drummers this year in competition at NHHG and came in FIRST. He is age 56, though he says he thinks he is 19 (well, in his mind anyway.) The band’s ensemble score in the Grade IV competition was judged FIRST. The ensemble score is the bass drum, tenor drums, and how everything sounds with the snares and pipes. This is where the Midsection (bass and tenors) reveives some recognition and helps or hinders in the scoring of the pipe band. Their goal as a band is to go to Scotland in August of 2006 and compete in the Worlds. The rankings for the Catamount Pipe Band are listed at www.euspba.org. Click on Results, insert year |
2004, and scroll down for Grade IV, Grade V and keep scrolling down to Bass Drum Amateur. In the Grade IV, you will see that they have 17 points which does not include the Games in Altamont, NY on Labor Day Saturday where they came in Fourth out of Eight, or the NHHG where they came in First out of Four. They are the highest ranked in the Northeast, fifth overall in the whole east and south as you can see. The higher you go from IV, III, II, I the fewer the bands. There are only three Grade I bands in the USA. They have a band website which is www.catamountpipeband.org. If you click on Photos you will see some photos of the band including the one of Steve doing bass drum solos at Loon Mtn. two years ago, shown proceeding this article. Steve is also learning the bagpipes from the Pipe Major of the band and he is learning (or relearning) the fiddle and playing Scottish tunes and Cape Breton tunes on a violin his grandfather actually made in 1932. He passed away before Steve was born. So it is of extra sentimental value to him. He is a member of the St. Andrews Society of Vermont along with his wife, Melinda, and is the Archivist, and a Board Member. Steve, of course, is a member of the Turnbull Clan Association and proud of it. Who are we?John Grason Turnbull (1909- 1984)
John Turnbull,
former judge, dies |
This
is the obituary for Judge Turnbull that appeared in The Baltimore Sun,
2 April 1984: