P/M Ross Walker
Ross started taking lessons from Bob Martin and his brother Craig in 1976 and had his first taste of competition at the end of the 1977 season with the Novice Juvenile band. He progressed through the ranks of the band, eventually becoming a Grade 1 player in 1983 at the age of 14.

During the 1986-89 seasons, in addition to his Grade 1 commitments, Ross also took on the duties of P/M of the Juvenile band. This proved a successful time for the kids band, winning most of the competitions they entered at that time - including the 5 major titles in 1988. This experience has served Ross well since taking over the senior role in the organisation in 1996.

The first year of Ross‘s stewardship saw the band placed 5th at the Worlds and similar positions in the other championships that year. This was achieved despite losing around 9 pipers from that 1994-95 corps, most of whom left to devote more time to families and careers. The following 2-3 years saw the band enter a transition period as pipers were ”grown” from the grade 2 and Juvenile bands and others recruited externally. It took some time for this new pipe corps to gel and produce the performances expected of Boghall, however the first signs of improvement started to appear in 1999. This improvement continued through the 2000 season with the band achieving a top 6 place in each of the five championships and, more importantly, achieving consistently high levels of performance. The revival of the band's competition efforts was confirmed when the band re-captured the Cowal Championship title in 2000 and the European Championship in 2003.


L/D Gordon Brown
From an early age Gordon showed a keen interest in Drumming. His father, Tom, taught him on a fairly casual basis during his early years, but it was in 1976 at the age of 12, that he took up drumming seriously. He joined Boghall's Novice Juvenile Band in November that year, where his dad was already teaching youngsters.

Soon after, in 1977, Gordon gained 6^th place in the Juvenile Section of the World Solo Drumming Championship at his first attempt. In the season that followed, Gordon and the Novice corps won the drumming prize in the five Major Championships and also every Drumming competition in which they played.

In 1978, Gordon was promoted to the Grade 2 corps under the leadership of his father. The two seasons that followed saw Gordon and the corps win almost every major championship band drumming award and at solo events, Gordon steadily moved up the prize lists at the World Championship and other solo drumming events. It was during this time that became involved at his dad`s famous “Tuesday night drumming class“ and it is interesting to note that just about every drummer involved at present with the Boghall Grade 1 and Grade 2 bands came through Tom`s famous school.

In 1991, Gordon took over as leading drummer of the Grade 1 corps from his father. To date the corps has won the Scottish, British, European Cowal drumming Championships on numerous occasions under his leadership and in 2001 Gordon's corps won the World Championship title.

On the solo side, Gordon won the senior juvenile section at the World Solos in 1981 and 1982, and also every solo event he entered during that time yet it was in 1994 that Gordon`s greatest ambition was realised when he became World Solo Drumming Champion. He had made it through to the final on several occasions previously and was placed 4th in 1993, but to have won such a prestigious award in 1994 was a dream come true. He has recently repeated that feat winning the World title in November 2003.