Gordon Barton

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#006633" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="3a0d6c00ddvuru.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0066FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Practical Pipers Society</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT> |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Practical Pipers Society"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jamie McDonald"><U>Jamie McDonald</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harry Beattie"><U>Harry Beattie</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gordon Bruce"><U>Gordon Bruce</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pipe Major Rob Hoogenhout"><U>Pipe Major Rob Hoogenhout</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frank Sheppard"><U>Frank Sheppard</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id103.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Val Smernicki"><U>Val Smernicki</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="David Alexander Hunter"><U>David Alexander Hunter</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frank Sheppard, Johnny Norrie Richard S"><U>Frank Sheppard, Johnny Norrie & Richard Smith</U></A>   |   <B>Gordon Barton</B></div> <div> Gordon Barton</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="567" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 276 WIDTH="555"><div>      Back in the early years of The Practical Pipers the group met on a regular basis in the hall at The Muroes.</div> <div>      A young lad who lived just up he road took an interest and decided to do something about learning to play the pipes.</div> <div>      He became a competing piper in the juvenle grades and eventuall, around 1990, he won the MOD at Aberfeldy. Eventually work got in he way.</div> <div>      Gordon studied hard and joined the merchant navy where he sailed the South Atlantic in search of adventure.</div> <div>      One cargo he did not appreciate was the regular run carrying best quality guano.(penguin crap).</div> <bR> <div>      Years down the line and I find that Gordon is a married man with family, but no longer sailing the waves.  He has taken up dry stane dyking in easten Scotland and has established his own business..</div> <bR> <div>      Piping has not been forgotten though. Gordon is a member of the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0033CC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alyth and District Pipe Band"><U><I>Alyth and District Pipe Band </I></U></A></FONT>and my picture shows him tuning up in 2010 at Markinch, Fife.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4dd2f760.jpg" border=0 width="559" height="374" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>