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|f_annotation='''McNAB(B)'S HORNPIPE.''' AKA and see "[[Crossing the Minch]]." Scottish, Canadian; Hornpipe. Canada; Maritimes, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Phillips): AABBCC (Messer): AABBCCDD (Cranford). Composition credits for the tune attributed to Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, under the title "[[Crossing the Minch]]," according to Paul Cranford (1997). Dunlay & Greenberg (1996, p. 53) credit the fourth part to Donald MacLeod. Christine Martin ascribes "[[Crossing the Minch]]" to Pipe Major Donald Shaw Ramsay. Played in a medley with "[[Farmer's Daughter (1)]]," "McNabb's Hornpipe" was one of the most popular recordings by Winston Fitzgerald and made it onto the Canadian music "hit parade" after it was released. 
|f_source_for_notated_version=Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton), who "likely learned this one from either Angus Chisholm or Sandy Boyd" [Cranford]. 
|f_printed_sources=Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald'''), 1997; No. 61, pp. 26-27. Messer ('''Don Messer's Barn Dance Breakdowns: Violin and Piano'''), 1954; No. 2. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; No. 121, pp. 76-77. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2'''), 1995; p. 207. 
|f_recorded_sources=Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald - "Classic Cuts" (reissue of Celtic Records CX 59). Rodeo RO-113 (78 RPM), Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald. 
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t817.html]<br>
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/m01.htm#Macho]<br>
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