SECOND prize along with a bogged and broken-down bus accompanied The Scots School Albury Pipe Band’s first competition of its Scottish tour.
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The band, which flew out on Thursday, came second out of 17 groups in grade 4A of the Scottish Pipe Band Championships in Dumbarton on Saturday.
More than 120 bands and an estimated 25,000 people attended the event at Levengrove Park.
As tenor drummer Isabella Plunkett explained on a Facebook video blog, the Scots band’s bus became bogged at the championships, delaying the musicians’ departure by about an hour.
“And 10 minutes later the bus broke down and then about an hour later the bus broke down again,” she said.
The touring party of 28 had to transfer all its equipment to another bus in the rain before finally arriving back in Edinburgh.
On Monday, the Albury group began rehearsals for The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the main purpose of the five-week trip to Scotland.
