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  Laurie MacKinnon
Professional Bagpipe Player

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These are notes of thanks from some of my satisfied customers. I hope you enjoy reading through them and they would give you some assurance of my professional services and my dedication to detail.

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Burns Supper
(January 2005-2007
)

Laurie has performed for The Strathclyde Police for three years and has always been excellent in value and entertainment.

Michael Young
(Coordinator)

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Highland Wedding
(19 August 2006
)

Many thanks for being with us at Fiona’s wedding on Saturday. Your playing enhanced the setting and we are grateful to you for following the requests that Fiona made.

Best wishes

Douglas Nicol
(Father Of The Bride)

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Wedding at Glasgow Registry Office
(29 July 2006
)

Thanks so much for your work on Saturday. Your piping was lovely and lots of people commented on it. You also look very nice in the photos! I will be happy to recommend you to others if you ever need a reference.

With best wishes

Aileen McGonigal
(Bride)

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Wedding (Glasgow)
(11 July 2006
)

Thanks Laurie,

Your work was great and we were both glad to have you involved at our wedding. It was really useful to have your guidance as to what worked and for you to sort out some of the details yourself. We were glad of any easy decision making brought our way. Your zeal to be involved was also well balanced by a willingness to submit to our preferences even when that meant taking a backseat.

Many thanks

Lewis & Claire Meek
(Bridegroom and Bride)

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H.M.S Dainty Association Event
(6 May 2006
)

Thank you for being so prompt and carrying out your piping duties in such a fine and diligent manner. By your excellent piping skills you enhanced our Royal Naval Reunion at The Glasgow Menzies Hotel at 1900 hours on Saturday 6th May 2006.

Thank You

Edward Poller
(On behalf of H.M.S. Dainty Association)

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Statistics Conference
Hosted by University of Glasgow
(22 March
2006)

The service provided was excellent and very professional. Feedback from the conference delegates also suggested that our guests thought the piper was brilliant (at playing the bagpipes and looked great, very well presented) I’d definitely use your services again should the need arise and wouldn’t hesitate in recommending you to others

Helen Parker
Main organiser for Conference

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Rotary Songs of Praise
(11 December 2005
)

Laurie piped for The Rotary Club Of Girvan Songs Of Praise and made an excellent job of piping a welcome and playing a medley at the end. He is a talented and personable young man.

Jim Crawford
President Rotary Club Of Girvan

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Wedding at Crieff Hydro
(5 November
2005)

You may remember Roderic and my wedding on November 5th 2005 at Crieff Hydro. We would just like to say a huge thank you for playing the pipes at the wedding. You were absolutely fantastic and it really set the day off amazingly. All of our guests thoroughly enjoyed your performances. Sorry we did not get chance to personally thank you on the day.

Claire and Roderic O'Donnell.
(Bride & Bridegroom)

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Wedding
(8 October 2005)

Laurie has helped to make our day so memorable. His piping is second to none. We will forever be in your debt. We wish you all the best for the future.

Arthur & Trisha Carroll
(Bridegroom and Bride)

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Wedding in Edinburgh at The Mansfield Traquair
(9 September 2005)

Craig and I would just like to say a huge thank you for the tremendous job you did on our wedding day – we were absolutely thrilled with your highly professional approach and we have received no end of compliments from our guests praising your talent. You’ve helped make our day as special as it was and we truly appreciate it.

All the best,

Mr & Mrs Main
(Bride & Bridegroom)

p.s. I look forward to recommending you to friends in the future, you were fab !

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Wedding in Bishopbriggs
(3 September 2005)

Thanks very much for playing at our wedding on 3 September 2005 and entertaining our guests. It greatly added to the atmosphere of the day.

Claire and John McCormick's Wedding

Claire and John McCormick
Bride and Groom

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Filming for the Lost World of Friese Green
(3 September 2005)

I would like to thank you for participating in the making of ‘The Lost World Of Friese Greene’ series for the BBC. The production team has travelled all over the country filming a wealth of images and stories for which your assistance is very much appreciated.

Thank you for helping to make the programme possible

Kind regards

Tom Horne
Researcher (The Lost World Of Friese Greene)

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Busking on Streets at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(August 2005)

We all enjoyed your bagpipe playing - and will be in touch if we'll ever need your services, as advertised on the website.

All the best.

Mihnea Chiuia

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Glasgow Wedding
(June 2005)

Fantastic service, perfect performances, polite, courteous and friendly man. All guests, particularly bride, were very moved by your talent. I could not have wished for a better person to take the huge responsibility of making my daughter, her groom, and all of her guests have a special day. Thoroughly enjoyed by all. Thank you kindly Laurie, you're a star!

Marie Taylor
Mother of the Groom

Piping on the Bride's arrival

Thanks Laurie, you made our day so much more special. I always dreamed of having a piper play for me at my wedding. I couldn't have asked for more from you. You have so much talent. You're a lovely man.

Tracy
Bride

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Scottish Winter Wedding
(January 2005)

Thank you so much for piping at the wedding. We thoroughly enjoyed all that you did and thank you most sincerely for adding to the whole occasion.

With our best regards and many thanks,

Helen and Bill Brodie
(Bride’s Parents)

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Bagpipe Playing at a Sikh Wedding
(February 2005)

"Well presented. We were very happy with the
service. Good timekeeping."

Thanks very much.
David Shand


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Bagpipe playing at a Wedding and a
Homecoming Ceilidh (6 & 20 November 2004)

Playing bagpipes during the Homecoming Ceilidh while the Ceilidh band took a break

Dear Laurie

Just writing to say thank you so much for your bagpiping skills at both my wedding (6 November 2004) in Norfolk, and my homecoming Ceilidh in Stirling (20 November 2004).

Very impressed with your range of tunes and ability to adapt to playing requests and to the audience you seem to generate whenever you play. Many of the guests since the wedding have commented on how wonderful it was to hear the pipes playing in rural Norfolk, where some of them had never even heard the bagpipes before!


Take care
Steve & Rachel Thomson

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Wedding in Barrhead
(August 2004)

James and I would like to say a big thank you for your excellent bagpipe playing. Many guests commented that they really enjoyed your playing and it helped create the special atmosphere. We appreciate your gift of time, effort and skill very much.

God bless
Claire & James

 

Laurie MacKinnon in action!