Crossing The Minch hornpipe

By Donald MacLeod

Also known as MacNab’s, MacNabb’s, Mc Nabb’s, McNab’s, McNabb’s, McNabs.

There are 30 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

The Fairy Dance (a few times),
The Farmer’s Daughter (a few times),
Gingerhogs (a few times),
The Jig Of Slurs (a few times) and
Kenny Macdonald’s (a few times).

Crossing The Minch has been added to 20 tune sets.

Crossing The Minch has been added to 263 tunebooks.

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Five settings

X: 1
T: Crossing The Minch
R: hornpipe

X: 2
T: Crossing The Minch
R: hornpipe

X: 3
T: Crossing The Minch
R: hornpipe

X: 4
T: Crossing The Minch
R: hornpipe

X: 5
T: Crossing The Minch
R: hornpipe

Fourteen comments

This is a cute little tune that Natalie MacMaster has described as the “perfect” tune for fiddlers trying to get the hang of their bowed triplets.

Enjoy,
Len

Crossing The Minch

This was written by G. Mclennan on the Minch ferry.There are four parts to the tune,I could submit the whole tune if anyone wants it. David Meredith

Yes, please do submit the other two parts! I requested this one because it’s the tune used most commonly for the Sailor’s Hornpipe, and I’m in the process of learning the Highland dance tunes… This is only part of the tune our dancers use! Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate it very much!

Minch

This was composed by P.M. Donald McLeod - not G.S. MacLennan.

Crossing The Minch

I stand corrected,it was composed by P.M Donald McLeod.I’ve posted the full version on the site.David Meredith

Um, could I ask directions to the full version? (Lol… yes, directionally challenged)

Crossing the Minch ( full version )

I also know this as a ‘march’…

“Aly Bain: 50 Fiddle Solos”

w/ CD ~ Accompanied by Phil Cunningham
Conway Editions / Music Sales, 1989 - DAM75128

Page 4: Traditional Pipe Hornpipe ~ “Crossing the Minch”

But it sounds like….

I played the two-part version ( any chance of getting the other two parts up in notation for us semi-illiterates ? ) to a friend last night and she thought it sounded Breton, not that htere’s anything wrong with that.

Triplet Bowing

Chelle Fulk, the fiddler in the band Keltish (she’s also my husband’s fiddle coach) doesn’t bow the triplets in Minch. She has this trick of tensing her forearm just so, and it makes the bow bounce on the string.

“Youtube”

http://youtu.be/kCHrY6dY2DI

play video

Played by “Ossian”.

Crossing The Minch, X:4

This is the dots for the 4 part setting posted by Gian above. I jst like to seethe dots.

Re: MacNabbs

This is Crossing the Minch- already here.

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