Dougie Pincock - The Smiler

Dougie, started put as a piper but also plays the flute and whistle extensively (and many more instruments besides). He gained fame when he joined the Battlefield Band. More recently he was director of the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music at Plockton High School. He is also an avid composer of tunes in the traditional style.

This tune is one of his own compositions and appears in The Flutefling Collection.

FluteFling~ traditional flutes and whistles in Scotland
FluteFling classes, workshops and weekends provide opportunities for people to learn and develop traditional skills on the whistle and flute in a Scottish setting.

These videos were made for the European Folk Day 2024 by contributors to The Flutefling Collection. The Flutefling organisation commissioned and printed the collection during covid lockdown to provide some support to traditional musicians (particularly flute players) during that difficult time. The collection provides a lasting resource for traditional musicians, with contributors providing their favourite flute based tunes, both modern and old in the traditional style.

For more details please go to

https://flutefling.scot/

This video is part of the Scottish Flute Channel, dedicated to all things traditional whistle and flute playing in Scotland

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