Donald WG Lindsay
"...a 21st century visionary" - piper & composer Matthew Welch
"...Donald has earned our admiration and respect for what he is achieving for piping"
- piper, museum curator, author and professor Hugh Cheape
Donald WG Lindsay is a Scottish musician and traditional singer, and a musical instrument designer/inventor best known for developing the Lindsay System for Scottish smallpipes.
The Lindsay System provides an instrument which offers a core range of two octaves, more than double that of the traditional Scottish Smallpipes, while still maintaining the traditional playing techniques and preserving (and extending) the characteristic voice of the Scottish Smallpipes. At full extent, depending on the type of reed used, the System can allow a range just one note short of three octaves. Donald also plays the whistle & low whistle, both now of his own Qwistle design.