The Manchester Pipe Band is a grade two

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Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

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. It was founded in 1914 and is the second oldest pipe band in continuous existence in the

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, after the Holyoke Caledonian Pipe Band which inspired its founding. Currently, the band competes in grade 3 of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association. The band has previously been in Grade 2, in which it took second place in 2007 and first place in 2009.TriadIndividualReport
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* http://www.manchesterpb.org/ Pipe bands Grade 2 pipe bands

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