"The Banks of Loch Ness" in Gaelic "Bruachan Loch Nis", "Bruachan Loch Neish" is a Scottish slow strathspey or air in G Minor. The parts are played AB (Cole) or AAB (Athole, Fraser, Hunter, Martin).
The tune is also used for a song. Captain Simon Fraser writes:
"The words and music of the "Banks of Loch Ness" are the composition of a very obscure individual, whom the editor remembers and are descriptive of the natural beauties which adorn that part of the country, forming a very interesting subject for the genuine poet or landscape painter".
It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Fraser's The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles (1874), Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988), Laybourn's Köhlers’ Violin Repository Part Third (1885), Manson's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 2 (1853), Martin's Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 4 (1991), Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884).