{{Short description|Scottish musician (1925–1999)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Duncan Johnstone | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date ={{birth date|df=yes|1925|07|25}} | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1999|11|02|1925|07|25}} | death_place = | genre = | occupation = | instrument = Great Highland Bagpipe }} '''Duncan Johnstone''' (25 July 1925 – 14 November 1999) was a Scottish bagpiper and composer.<ref>{{cite news | last = Gilchrist | first = Jim | title = Music Review : Celtic Connections : Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band & Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band : **** | newspaper = The Scotsman | pages = 34 | date = 30 January 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Herald">{{cite news | title = Duncan Johnstone | newspaper = The Herald | location = Glasgow | pages = 18 | date = 27 November 1999 }}</ref>
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His parents were Alexander Johnstone (born MacMillan) from Benbecula and his mother Kate MacMillan from Craigston, Barra.{{cn|date=October 2022}} His mother was the sister of Father John MacMillan of Barra for whom the 2/4 march piping tune was named.{{cn|date=October 2022}} Upon leaving school, he was apprenticed as a cabinetmaker.<ref>{{cite web |title=Famous Pipers: Duncan Johnstone |url=https://bagpipe.news/2020/11/05/famous-pipers-duncan-johnstone/ |website=Bagpipe News |publisher=The National Piping Centre |access-date=2 May 2021}}</ref> During World War II, Duncan served with the Submarine Surveillance Mine Sweeping Service in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas.<ref name="Herald"/> On his return from the war, he became a joiner for the Clan Line and Stephen shipyards, whilst taking piping lessons in his free time.<ref name="Herald"/> He was the first piper to win the Scottish Pipers' Association Knockout Competition in 1964.<ref name="Herald"/>
In 1974, he moved on to be a bagpipe instructor full-time at the College of Piping in Otago Street, Glasgow; a position he held until 1978 when, he founded his own piping school in Robertson Street. Duncan taught Finlay MacDonald (musician), one of the first pipers to receive a BA in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.<ref name="Herald"/>
He published three books of traditional and modern pipe music and three solo albums.<ref name="Herald"/> He was awarded the Balvenie Medal by Messrs Wm Grant & Son in 1996 for his piping achievements.<ref name="Herald"/>
After his death the Duncan Johnstone Memorial Competition was set up by the National Piping Centre.<ref>{{cite news | last = Gilchrist | first = Jim | title = Folk, Jazz, Etc: Son's suite tribute to the piper's piper, the late Duncan Johnstone | newspaper = The Scotsman | pages = 40 | date = 4 August 2010 }}</ref>
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