{"id":24906,"date":"2025-06-30T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=24906"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:51:53","slug":"the-lindsay-system-a-grassroots-development-in-scottish-piping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/the-lindsay-system-a-grassroots-development-in-scottish-piping\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lindsay System \u2013 A Grassroots Development in Scottish Piping"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past two decades, Donald WG Lindsay has been quietly developing a new fingering and chanter system for bellows-blown pipes. Entirely keyless, yet capable of over two octaves (and sometimes more), the system evolved from personal experimentation and is now known as the Lindsay System Chanter – or LSC for short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve years ago, a small group of backers supported a Kickstarter campaign enabling Donald to acquire a 3D printer and begin developing the instrument in open-source form. That step brought reproducibility and access, and in 2016 the first professional-quality set \u2014 the Rainbow Set of Pollok<\/em> \u2014 was completed and is now housed in the Museum of Piping at the National Piping Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system is now used by a growing number of pipers and makers across Scotland, North America, and mainland Europe. Its unique sound has already featured in award-winning recordings and film soundtracks including The Outrun<\/em> (played by Malin Lewis) and My Old School<\/em> (played by Donald himself). The project remains consciously open-source, with free plans, home-3D-printable files, and build guides online, and a growing community of makers and players worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now based in Orkney, Donald is preparing the next phase: creating an open curriculum for the chanter, expanding free online resources including video and audio content, and beginning work on a repertoire archive. Efforts to secure funding for this work are underway, and messages of support for this are welcomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone interested in the project, either as a potential player of the chanter, a supporter of what we’re doing here, or a collaborator\/potential stakeholder in the project, is warmly invited to get in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.donaldwglindsay.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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