Name: Roddy Munro
Occupation: IT Project Support Officer (University of Abertay Dundee)
Year you started playing pipes: 1993
Taught by: Ian Duncan (school)
Iain MacCrimmon
Previous bands: MacKenzie Caledonian (Novice Juvenile)
Tayforth UOTC Pipes and Drums
Favourite tune: The Sheepwife, The Whitby Runaround, Caber Feidh, Pressed for Time
Favourite bands: FMM, SFU, Bagad Brieg, Bagad Kemper
Favourite booze: Budvar, or any Inveralmond ale
Achievements/History of piping career: Roddy is one of only four current band members who were part of the World Champions and Champion of Champions Novice Juvenile band from 1998. He has played at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo four times, and took over Tayforth P&D for a year as Acting Pipe Major for the 2003-2004 Season. Achievements include winning the solo hornpipe and jig competition at Ex Northern Lights in 2002, being part of the TA Championship quartet winners in 2001, and winning the full band competition at Ex Northern Lights in 2003 and 2005.