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Jim McGillivray
Jig 6/8
4
4
Difficult

Sometime in the early 1990s, Michael Grey and I accompanied Bill and Lillian Livingstone to Dunvegan Castle to hear Bill play in the Silver Chanter. Bill rented a Rover for the occasion. After the event all but myself had imbibed liberally so I drove back to the hotel. While I can drive a stick-shift with my wrong hand on the wrong side of the road during the day time, night time when I can’t see the gear numbers is a different story. Lillian sat in the front seat with me and navigated, more often than not with the map upside down and me grinding the gears. Bill and Michael spent the whole meandering trip giggling in the back seat. The 15-minute trip took us an hour, and we only got there because we drove past the front of the hotel by accident. Michael actually named the tune.

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5 Comments

  • Celtic.bard
    April 6, 2017 at 12:11 am

    Beautiful jig!

  • Liam McElhinney
    August 4, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    just to let you know you have the number of parts mixed up with the number of lines but Great Jig!

    • Jim McGillivray
      August 10, 2017 at 8:16 pm

      Thanks Liam. Been a bit distracted lately and have a few other wee things like this to fix, but we’ll get to them soon!
      Thanks,
      Jim

      • Administrator
        August 24, 2017 at 10:06 pm

        Liam,
        Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. The oversight was corrected and published!

  • Steve
    July 24, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    Pipes were tremendous. Nice body. Made the Jig sound even better! I envision the grinding of the gears as the grips that pop in from time to time during the tune!

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