Ian Embelton, of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, explained the decision to extend this year's championships.
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It started life as Govan Police Pipe Band, then Glasgow Police and, since 1975, Strathclyde Police Pipe Band.
The pipe band, which can trace its links back to the 19th Century, will end on 31 March 2013.
We are no longer a police pipe band but a civilian pipe band.
Lothian and Borders Police is to disband its pipe band after it was left with not enough members to compete.
The band won the 1975 World Pipe Band Championship and a further six times under their former identity as the Edinburgh Police.
The band has been renamed as the Bannockburn and District Pipe Band.
The first broadcast, at 7pm on Tuesday 6th March 1923, began with a pipe band playing the popular folk tune 'Hey, Johnnie Cope'.
There will also be a pop-up gallery, a pipe band, dance performances, a traditional boat building display and a ceilidh on the day.
It is the end of an era for the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which is making its last performance under that name at Celtic Connections.
It was developed after the second world war when the bombarde was added to the Scottish pipe band that had been imported complete with highland bagpipes, snare drums and a great drum.
Central Scotland Police has disbanded its pipe and drum band and reformed it as a civilian one.
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