Annotation:McNabb's Hornpipe
X:1 T:McNabb's Hornpipe M:C| L:1/8 R:Hornpipe K:D ag | fA AA/A/ f2 ef | gB BB/B/ g2 ag | fA AA/A/ f2 ef | gfed dcde | fA AA/A/ f2 ef | gB BB/B/g4 | faaf gecd | e2d2d2 :| |: e2 | fA AA/A/ faaf | gB BB/B/ g2 ag | fA AA/A/ faaf |gfed dcde | fA AA/A/ faaf | gB BB/B/ g4 | faaf gecd | e2d2d2 :: e2 | fA AA/A/ fA AA/A/ | gA AA/A/ gA AA/A/ | fA AA/A/ fA AA/A/ | eA AA/A/ eA AA/A/ | fA AA/A/ fA AA/A/ | gA AA/A/ gA AA/A/ | faaf gecd | e2d2d2 :|
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.
