reel · Key of A
An ugly customer
O’Neill 1907 no. 623
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:623
T:An ugly customer
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 623
R:Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A
EAcA eAca|EACe dBB2|EAcA eAcA|afed cABG|EAcA eAcA|EAce dBBg|({b}a)gae faec|dBed cA A||
e||{b}agae fefg|afec dBBe|({b}a)gae faec|dBed cAAe|({b}a)gae faec|({e}d)BcA BFF2|EFED EFAB|ceBd cAA2|]FAQ
Questions about An ugly customer
An ugly customer is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 98% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 6.
It is a reel, written in C|.
Yes. Copy the ABC below into the ABC transposer, move the transpose control by semitone, and the notation and tab are redrawn together in the new key. Handy if a singer wants it lower or the tune sits awkwardly on the neck.
Yes. Tenor banjo, mandolin and octave mandola are all tuned GDAE, so the tab above is identical for all three. A bouzouki tuned GDAD needs the top string adjusting, which the converter handles.