Angus MacKinnon jig

An old pipe band march I used to play.

This 6/8 march was composed by Pipe Major Donald Shaw Ramsay and it was the first tune in his Edcath Collection, Vol.1, of 1953. Angus MacKinnon was a fellow piper from Lochboisdale.

I’ve heard this tune before, maybe adapted for dancing, & it’s lovely. On the fiddle, the first setting seems to want a G# on the E string - I presume it’s a ‘flattened seventh’ on the pipes? Please help me, Nigel & Jacke. 🙂

Ah, yes, I see it is G# - here’s a YouTube fiddle version that’s helped me. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNZMT8zm6M

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Angus MacKinnon of Eigg is an entirely different tune, its a 2/4 Highland bagpipe march composed by Iain MacDonald.