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McCallum Bagpipes ended up being created in 1998 by current lovers, company directors Stuart McCallum and Kenny MacLeod. Stuart and Kenny had understood each other for a long time through piping before starting the company, having both been people in the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band.

Kenny was already attempting to sell practice chanters created by Stuart as he was at California. These people were an immediate success when Kenny came back in 1998 they decided to join forces and develop bagpipes and pipeline chanters.

The organization started out under the crammed conditions of a shed inside McCallum Timber Buildings garden in Kilmarnock’s Moorfield Industrial Estate, but rapidly outgrew its environment and relocated to a self contained unit nearby which enabled the business to improve its workforce and manufacturing ability. In next many years, the company has continued to outgrow it self and expand its result.

In a short period of time, McCallum Bagpipes is rolling out in to the world’s leading bagpipe manufacturers. The Reason Why?

• We were only available in in 1998 with 3 men and women; we've 34,
• We manufacture 40 units of bagpipes every week, along side smallpipes, pipe chanters, practice chanters and reeds,
• We control the standard of all of our products and don’t need to count on any kind of producers for products,
• The majority of all of us tend to be pipers and just take great pleasure within work. They want to be linked to the best bagpipes and certainly will always provide their utmost guidance and support.

McCallum Bagpipes today occupies 10, 000 sqft of unit room comprising our fantastic factory and beautifully appointed showroom working in bagpipes, smallpipes, percussion and highlandwear in one place.

You will be certain whenever you buy a McCallum Bagpipes tool you are making an audio financial investment.

Company Director Stuart McCallum is the creator of McCallum Bagpipes. His back ground is based on precision engineering, as a period served tool-maker with a specialised knowledge in programming and operating CNC machinery. He struggled to obtain a local Kilmarnock engineering company, McCrindles Tooling. These people were manufacturers to many huge organizations making motor parts for Rolls Royce and also the aero business. He progressed from professional to foreman to manufacturing engineer and his work would be to programme the CNC milling and switching machinery. Stuart uses all precise skills and tolerances he used in their manufacturing back ground when making bagpipes.

With an enthusiastic fascination with device technology development, Stuart possesses a consistent drive to surpass the organization’s unrivalled production criteria. Stuart directs all factory operations, concentrating mostly on all design, manufacturing and quality-control areas of the bagpipe making procedure.

Stuart himself is a professional piper. He's claimed many significant RSPBA titles in Grade 1 with ScottishPower Pipe Band and Strathclyde Police Pipe Band.

Kenny MacLeod has been involved with making and selling bagpipes since 1982, employed by Kintail in Cumbernauld and Glasgow. In 1988, he had been one of the founding lovers inside the very own company, MacLeod Highland products. That turned out to be very successful in a brief period of the time, selling bagpipes and all pipeline musical organization gear. In 1995, Kenny offered their share in MacLeod Highland products and moved to l . a ., California to try out utilizing the l . a . Police Pipe Band. He in addition started selling bagpipes and teaching as he was truth be told there. It had been really hard to have products of pipes and chanters at that moment therefore Kenny requested Stuart if he might make practice chanters to help with distribution times.

Kenny deals mainly aided by the general public side of the company, overseeing product sales, pr, advertising and administration. As McCallum Bagpipes expands its intercontinental base of clients, Kenny often moves to international events as an ambassador for company.

A favorite face in piping world, Kenny has a very long time knowledge behind him having led as Pipe Major of Phoenix Honda Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band and done along with other top Grade 1 pipe groups.