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Dreaming Pipes: Ten Years of the Lindsay System

A new touring exhibition tracing the first ten years of the Lindsay System will visit venues across Scotland in 2026, bringing together instrument design, live music, making, research and public engagement in a project rooted in the living traditions of Scottish bellows piping.

Dreaming Pipes: Ten Years of the Lindsay System follows the first decade of the Lindsay System in public use: the open-source, extended-range, keyless Scottish smallpipe chanter design created by musician and instrument designer Donald WG Lindsay. Through prototypes, diagrams, instruments, text, sound and film, the exhibition places the Lindsay System within the wider modern story of Scottish smallpipes, shaped by a simple musical question: how can pipers carry what they already know into fuller participation in the music around them without having to start over from scratch? It shows how the Lindsay System answers that question in its own way: by making a greatly extended melodic range musically and physically workable without keys, while preserving a secure centre of familiar piping technique from which players can extend outward.

The exhibition traces not only the development of the instrument itself, but the wider culture of use, adaptation and exchange that has grown around it: from early uptake by players and makers, to the shareable, 3D-printable LSC_PRINT&PLAY and new access through digital fabrication, to experiments in new and recycled materials, pedagogical use, and the translation of the design back into wood through traditional craft methods. Rooted in both bellows-piping tradition and contemporary maker culture, Dreaming Pipes presents the Lindsay System as part of a living open process within Scottish smallpipes more broadly.

Information published by Leisure and Culture Dundee.

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