Lindstruments

Lindstruments is the Home of the Lindsay System, currently located in the Orkney Islands.

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Rory Dall’s Sister’s Lament on Lindsay System Scottish smallpipes. First heard from Ossian—a tune that helped inspire this chanter.

A few December dispatch slots remain:
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Built directly into the Lindsay System chanter: individual tuners for the notes pipers most often need to adjust.

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The Virtual Lindsay System Chanter is live. Hear it, watch the fingering, turn it around, follow the score, or paste in an ABC tune and see how it sits on the Lindsay System. Have a play — and tell me what tune you want next: https://t.co/NZMjRD8VnD

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The Kesh Jig on the Lindsay System Scottish smallpipes — a familiar Irish tune, with the full chanter range and drones in play.

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A quiet look around the Lindsay System chanter: the tuner side, the instrument’s shape, and how its parts relate before a note is played. The physical chanter and the digital model are developed together.

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September’s Lindstruments mail-out is underway! This set of Lindsay System Scottish smallpipes left Orkney today for its piper in Plockton.

I always have one last play before packing a set. This time: Si Beag Si Mor.

Really looking forward to hearing how they get on!

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Inside the Lindsay System Learning App: Tamhair Dom Do Lamh, closing track on the upcoming @donaldwglindsay + @Roogeddes album Honeymoon Bridge.

The app will ship with new Lindstruments chanters and smallpipes. Existing owners: message us for first-wave access.

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How the pipes go together—filmed outdoors in Aviemore. The first of a weekly series looking closely at the instrument.

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After many years of work, a new suite of Lindsay System learning resources is nearly ready: a traditional three-stage tutor, an interactive app-based platform, and user guides with new chanters and smallpipe sets. One model from the interactive 3D fingering chart. More soon.

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The Lindsay System Chanter scale in full—with commentary as well as the notes: not simply what the instrument sounds like, but how the scale lies beneath the fingers.

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Roo in Rajhastan 🇮🇳, sending a tune back home from the Indian heat to the Scottish winter ☀️ ❄️ as Roo says, come and join us at https://t.co/gUdilK7EL1 and reserve yourself a copy of this very special album 🧡🤍💚 #folkmusic #scottishmusic #tradmusic #ballads #fiddle

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@piperdotally @BigRabShow Haha well played!

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Sign the petition to convince the BBC to retain its flagship piping radio show Pipeline, and its other specialist music shows on BBC Radio Scotland.

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Today, the future of Pipeline, BBC Radio Scotland's flagship bagpiping music radio show and several other shows are under threat. Please sign this petition and share to show the support from our community for this vital piping programme.
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Fantastic to be back in the Lindstruments Ascension workshop after a great summer touring & building instruments in Scotland. On the workbench this week - can you guess?

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It's time to begin sharing tidbits and wee insights into the making of "How've You Been?", ahead of its Scottish tour this August. Here's sun-up over Sisters Peak, Ascension Island. The tune is "How've You Been?", played on Lindsay System pipes. More about the tune itself later..

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@nofansrecords love the fire organ ❤️

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"...experiments with gas flames placed before the end of an open pipe to make the vibrations visible, shew that the...forms of vibration...correspond with those of a violin string, except that...their corners are rounded off." Hermann Helmholtz "On the Sensations of Tone" p.93

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A render in CAD, of the stamp going on pipes made while I'm out here. The design combines a rising "wideawake" (sooty tern), with ash cone Sisters Peak in the background. The outline representing Sisters' is the pitch-pattern of a "wide-awake" vocalisation we recorded at Mars Bay

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Designing tools this morning in CAD, to model possibilities for the Lindsay System. Here's an example - this tool produces a model of a prototype a fully tuneable chanter. This would allow rapid recalibration to match different scale temperaments & drone tunings ; #lindsaysystem

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On @bbcworldservice at 7am today - from 47m36s Lindstruments' @donaldwglindsay talks about the LSC_PRINT&PLAY project with @Zexuan_Qiao (now on @thingiverse), and his album "History of Sleep" with @nofansrecords on @GoodEnergyRecs. Thanks @RobinTheFog!

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