I primarily play the Scottish Smallpipes, the Whistle, and the Highland Bagpipes. With these instruments, I've been involved in a diverse array of projects and ensembles.
I play for the most part now, instruments I have invented myself. The main ones are the Lindsay System Chanter - a Scottish Smallpipes chanter, which I've enabled to exceed the usual range of 9 notes. The new range extends beyond two octaves, and although naturally still focused around a tonal centre, in this case 'A' 440Hz, the scale steps have been filled in to give 12 steps to the octave through most of the chanter's range - soon to be all of its working range, if the design of a new reed by a Glasgow reed maker proves to be successful. Current projects include a design that allows easy selection between, and a much wider choice of, drone pitches, and a system to allow the chanter to be readily tempered to any pitch of drone once selected.
Amongst the other instruments I've been working on, is the Qwistle. The Qwistle is based on a traditional penny whistle, but can be adapted to provide any scale required, and modified in a wide range of different ways - the majority of which have only begun to be explored at the time of writing. The range of the Qwistle is also two octaves beginning on a 'D', and within that range, the basic scale of the two instruments is remarkably similar.
I also play the guitar - a 12 string, strung in unison courses, and a fretless 6 string acoustic. Both are usually tuned to DADGAD, and I tend to play melodies against a drone on them (the fretless allows for better intonation in relation to the drone).
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