Ben C Niven hornpipe

A popular hornpipe, especially among pipers, by Iain MacCrimmon, though for whatever reason the D part rarely gets played.

Thanks for posting this - it’s been a favourite pipe tune of mine for years, but I’ve only ever heard it played twice. Once was by a band on Radio Scotland’s "Pipeline’s" piping programme, and it was recorded by "The McNaughton’s Vale Of Atholl JuniorPipe Band", on a cassette tape called "Spinning A Yarn".
Until you posted this here, I had only heard it as a 3-part tune, as you said, so I’m very pleased to have a 4th part, which I look forward to trying. It is weird - I’ve never come across that before, as pipers are usually fairly dogmatic about their settings.
By a strange coincidence, I was discussing this very tune with a piper who attends my flute class last Monday night. He hadn’t heard the tune at all, so I’ll pass it on to him this Monday coming. Thanks once again.

PS - do you know who Ben C. Niven is / was ? I like to know these things.

This is……….. interesting. A version from Kuala Lumpur, apparently.

https://youtu.be/naRMreAmsYY

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