More than 50 Years of Pipe Music in Heerlen
The history of the Coriovallum Pipe band originates in 1950
when the Heerlen City Police Band appeared, for the first time,
with a number of pipers. These musicians were tutored by
pipers of "The Black Watch (The Royal Highland Regiment)" - a
Scottish Regiment then stationed at Duisburg, Germany after
the second world war.
In the second half of the sixties AFCENT NATO HQ was moved
from Fontainebleau (Fr) to the nearby town of Brunssum (NL).
This gave the Heerlen Police the opportunity to recruit new
(Scottish) Pipers, on a temporary basis, to their ranks. At the
beginning of the "eighties", due to a combination of expense
cutbacks and a diminishing number of members, the Heerlen
Police Band was disbanded.
However, the Coriovallum Pipe
Band being founded in 1978 by Steph Quaedvlieg, Hein Quaedvlieg en James Verner, was there to take over the torch
from their predecessors. In the year 2000 the Coriovallum Pipe
Band organised an event in Heerlen to commerate this fact. This event
was presented under the motto "50 years Pipe Music in Heerlen".
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