Father Dollard's Hornpipe
O’Neill 1903 no. 1669
Irish tenor banjo tab
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ABC notation source
X:1669 T:Father Dollard's Hornpipe M:4/4 L:1/8 B:O'Neill's 1669 N:"collected by Dollard" K:D D2 \ | D2 (3DDD DFAA | defe dcBA | FA A2BAA2 | GFEDCEA,C | | D2(3DDD DFAA | defe dcBA | FAAA BAGE | D2(3DDDD2 :| |: d-e \ | f>d(3dcd A>d(3dcd | f>d(3dcd bgaf | gfec Acef | (3gag b>g agfg | | Adcd(3Bcd AF | Adcd(3Bcd A2 | Adfa gece | d2 (3ddd d2 :|
Questions about Father Dollard's Hornpipe
Father Dollard's Hornpipe is in D, in 4/4 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.
Easy. 97% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.
The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.
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.