Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong (born 2 February 1980) is a bagpiper from Scotland and pipe major of the ScottishPower Pipe Band. Life Armstrong was born in Bathgate on 2 February 1980. He started learning the bagpipes at the age of 6, and played in the Torphichen and Bathgate juvenile band, where he was taught by Pipe Major John Matheson. After a spell of not competing in a band, and then playing in a number of different groups, he became pipe sergeant of Torphichen and Bathgate Pipe Band for two years. He became pipe major of the David Urquhart Travel Pipe Band in 2004, and then in 2006 became leader of the ScottishPower Pipe Band.