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Crossing The Minch

hornpipe

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 4th 2003 by KeepFiddlin'.

This tune has been added to 98 tunebooks.

Also known as Crossing The Mince, Crossing The Minch March, MacNabb's, McNab's, McNabb's, The Minch March, Sailor's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Ag Cur Na Samhradh by Samhradh
Battlefield Band by Battlefield Band
Cape Breton Fiddle Music Not Calm by Howie MacDonald And Ashley MacIsaac
Celtic Connections - The Album by Various Artists
Chrissy Crowley by Chrissy Crowley
Classic Cuts by Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald
Dance Music Of Ireland by Jerry O'Brien, Joe Derrane And The Irish All Stars
Early Recordings Of Irish Traditional Dance Music by John Kimmel
Edge Of Reason by Face The West
Explosive Fiddlers by The Explosive Fiddlers
Far From Home by Boys Of The Lough
Fire And Grace by Alistair Fraser With Natalie Haas
Full Circle by Bill Lamey
Greenfire by Greenfire
Irish Accordion Masters by Joe Derrane And Jerry O'Brien
Keltish by Keltish
Party Acadien by Eddy Arsenault Et Famille, Anastasia DesRoches, Louise Arsenault
Spades by Rapalje
Stepping On The Bridge by Hamish Moore
Traditionally Yours by Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald
Traditions by Maggie Sansone
Year Of The Dog by Wolfstone

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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

# Posted on November 4th 2003 by KeepFiddlin'

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

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

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!

# Posted on November 6th 2003 by Oranaiche

Minch

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

# Posted on November 6th 2003 by Kenny

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

# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd

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

# Posted on November 7th 2003 by Oranaiche

Crossing the Minch ( full version )

# Posted on November 7th 2003 by gian marco

I also know this as a 'march'...

# Posted on July 27th 2005 by ceolachan

"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"

# Posted on July 27th 2005 by ceolachan

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.

# Posted on June 10th 2006 by Guernsey Pete

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.

# Posted on May 9th 2008 by khutchins