Duffy the Dancer
O’Neill 1903 no. 1497
Also known as ua du.btai.g an rinceoir
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1497
T:Duffy the Dancer
R:reel
N:"collected from Walsh"
B:"O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland, 1497"
T: ua du.btai.g an rinceoir.
M:C|
L:1/8
K:A
e|Ta2 (ea) cAAd|cAeA cAAe|Ta2 (ea) cAAd|BGdc BGBd|
Ta2 (ea) cAAd|cAeA cAAe|Tg2 (fg) {b}aefd|BGdc BG G||
e|cAeA fAeA|cAeA cAAd|cAeA fAeA|BGdc BGGd|
cAeA fAeA|cAeA cAAe|Tg2 fg {b}aefd|BGdc BA A||Questions about Duffy the Dancer
Duffy the Dancer is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.
Moderate. 93% 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.