hornpipe · Key of G
Fair and forty
O’Neill 1907 no. 840
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Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:840 T:Fair and forty C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 840 R:Hornpipe M:C| L:1/8 K:G D2|(3.G.G.G BG d2BG|efgf edBd|ceAc BdGB|ABcA GFED|(3.G.G.G BG d2Bd|efgf edBd|ceAc BdGB| cAFA G2::d2|gfga bgdg|edef gdBd|gfga bgdg|edcB A2(Bd)|gfga bgdg|edef gdBG|DGBd gdBd|cAFA G2:|
FAQ
Questions about Fair and forty
Fair and forty is in G, in C| time. The G 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 7.
It is a hornpipe, 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.