"Jim Taylor" was one of those quiet men of the pipe Band world. This was probably more difficult than usual, when you realise that he was a Bass Drummer in successful bands throughout Dundee, Perth and Angus. A keen worker and willing to play whenever asked. My earliest recollection Jim was, as a teenager in the Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band, I saw him performing with the National Cash Register Pipe Band. Here was a successful pipe band full of good players, in all departments, but held securely together by the heart-beat provided by this Bass Drummer. Years would pass, till eventually I became Pipe Major of Tayside Police and the resident Bass Drummer, George Miller, himself an excellent performer, was able to persuade Jim to join us.