Musical instruments made and played by Donald WG Lindsay

Lindstruments exists to serve a growing international community of players and participants engaged with the Lindsay System Chanter project. At present, this site provides access to instruments, printable files, and information to support understanding of what the Lindsay System is, and how it may come to form part of the evolving traditions of piping and Scottish traditional music. We are now, as of April 2026, in the early stages of developing a formal public-benefit structure around this work.

Lindstruments offers Lindsay System chanters and related designs, and the project has generated recording projects and detailed coverage from organisations including the National Piping Centre, the Bagpipe Society and TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland), alongside Scottish press coverage in titles including The Herald, The Scotsman & The Daily Record, and TV features on STV's The Riverside Show, Live@5, and BBC Scotland's The Nine.

Two early Lindsay System prototype sets are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Piping at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, and the system is used by pipers and makers across the wider UK and Ireland, North America and mainland Europe, and further afield as far as Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan. The Lindsay System Chanter's unique voice can already be heard on critically acclaimed album recordings and in the soundtracks of award-winning Scottish films such as The Outrun and My Old School.

Donald is a professional musician, recording, touring and performing on his self-designed and made instruments; recent releases include his album Two Boats Under the Moon (★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine, ★★★★ Songlines, ★★★★ The Scotsman) and his duo album Welcome Home My Dearie (8/10 Uncut) with longtime friend Alasdair Roberts.