The Battle Of Waterloo

WayfaringStranger A SmallPipes

Cormac.

Track from Athrú's Debut EP "Athrú"

Field of Dreams - Comp. Cormac Crummey
Feed the Ducks
S.T.J. - Comp. Cormac Crummey
Honk Toot - Comp. Kris Drever & Ian Carr

Cormac

These samples are intended to illustrate the new (Oct 2015) version 2.0 Lindsay System Chanter, and the drone set which has been developed to support it.

Included are a few tunes, some drone demos, and some scales to illustrate a few of the keys that the chanter can play in.

All of this music demonstrates the Lindsay System Chanter version 2.0, which is a nominal "A" Scottish Smallpipes chanter, with range extended both upwards and downwards to allow two octaves, starting on "D". The chanter is as comfortable in the traditional Scottish pipe modes (based around "A"), as it is in D major (see tunes below). Various keys and modes can be played in addition to this, including A major, A minor, A dorian, E major, E minor, B minor, B major, D minor, G major, and many other less common scales & modes. Available drone tunings include a classic Bass-Baritone-Tenor configuration in either "A", "D" or "E", and a Bass-Tenor pair sounding "B". These are all achieved using a typical four-drone "combination" set, equipped with long tuning slides.

Scale in "A" Major

Outtake from a 2010 recording session for the soundtrack of Luke Fowler's 2012 film about R.D. Laing, 'All Divided Selves'.  Recorded by Jamie Savage at Chem 19 Studios, Blantyre, Glasgow and produced by Luke Fowler.  This is a guitar-based version of the song; a piano-based version of the same song featured in the film.

The Hidden Sin

Another rough mix from the upcoming album - two original tunes.

The Dramble/Dirty Dollag - Alastair Caplin

When We Where In Love(house remix)

Lindstruments has been established as an online space to promote and make available the work of Scottish musician and instrument innovator Donald WG Lindsay, originator of the Lindsay System, and to support further research and development work.

Scale in "A" Major

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