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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 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/honeymoon-br… and reserve yourself a copy of this very special album 🧡🤍💚 #folkmusic #scottishmusic #tradmusic #ballads #fiddle

@piperdotally @BigRabShow Haha well played!

But in all honesty, Scotland the Brave is the bagpipe equivalent of “Free Bird” which is why it’s the only tune you ever hear. #bagpipes #bagpiper #allythepiper #piperally #freebird

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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?

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..

@nofansrecords love the fire organ ❤️

"...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

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

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

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! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

Watch & listen to what Malin Lewis can do, with Shona Mooney and @AlihuttonPipes, for @EdinTradfest at @traversetheatre - only £5, online til Mon (9th Nov)! Awesome explorations within the open-source Lindsay System, as handmade in wood by Malin in Skye traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event…

Forget Trump and Biden - vote for Malin Lewis! The brilliant young Skye piper & multi-instrumentalist, composer and pipe maker, and reigning champion of the Lindsay System nominated for best up & coming artist in the 2020 Scots Trad Music Awards #natrads surveymonkey.co.uk/r/tradawards20…

Great to talk with @RabLennox for @bbcradioulster's Kintra magazine show, about the LSC_PRINT&PLAY project - our shareable extended range small pipe chanter. Includes a bonus potted history of Ascension Island! Thanks Rab :) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thanks Ellen Prieschl for sending confirmation of delivery of PRINT&PLAY no.3, which sailed on the Sleipnir III from Ascension Island to Brest, Brittany. Any sailors calling at Ascension & bound for the UK or USA any time soon? (see bagpipe.news for the whole story!)

South Atlantic seen from Two Boats bar, from where we spoke with Robin the Fog (@Howlroundmusic) for @BBCRadio4 on Friday about the album "History of Sleep" with Richard Youngs, released a week earlier on Good Energy Records, the Lindsay System project, LSC_PRINT&PLAY and more...

Looking for some good news this morning? Have a read of the second instalment of Lindstruments' Donald WG Lindsay's "Piping on Another Planet" blog for Bagpipe.News following his Ascension adventures over the past six months or so : bagpipe.news/2020/09/22/don…

Out today on cassette, CD & download from Good Energy, Donald WG Lindsay & Richard Youngs "The History of Sleep", a free-ranging, improvisational exploration of the Lindsay System Chanter, in the company of Richard's Rickenbacker 480 goodenergy.bandcamp.com

@RyanPierce_Chi ps. will forward updated ferrules tonight!

I am going non-traditional with the color scheme for these 3D printed bagpipes. Black, but with red accents. @lindstruments

If you don’t come out of this quarantine with a set of 3D printed bagpipes, you didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline. 😂 These are the stocks that fit into the bag. The prints took forever at 100% infill, PLA, with 0.14 mm layers. Design by @lindstruments

@RyanPierce_Chi looking great Ryan! Black on red - very @chillipipers

@RyanPierce_Chi looking smart Ryan!