'IT'S not a hobby and it's not a profession," Ian Embelton said yesterday as the World Pipe Band Championships, known as "The Worlds", reached their deafening climax.
"It's a total obsession." He had to speak loudly so as to be heard over the fruits of such obsessions yesterday – the insistent, thunderous, unbroken sound of pipes and drums, played by the world's finest bands.
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