hornpipe · Key of D

Father Dollard's hornpipe

O’Neill 1907 no. 881

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Father Dollard's hornpipe"Father Dollard's hornpipeHornpipeanon. (Ireland)333000000400502054204002005420622600000400502054204000205200000333333350255450554525545735232040402353735323054524504054524500525304055555Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 881

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X:881
T:Father Dollard's hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 881
R:Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
D2|D2(3DDD DFAA|defe dcBA|FAA2 BAA2|GFED CEA,C|D2(3DDD DFAA|defe dcBA|FAAA BAGE|D2(3DDD D2:|
|:(de)|f>d (3dcd A>d (3dcd|f>d (3dcd bgaf|gfec Acef|(3(gag) b>g agfg|Adcd (3(Bcd) AF|Adcd (3(Bcd) A2|Adfa gece|d2(3ddd d2:|
FAQ

Questions about Father Dollard's hornpipe

  • Father Dollard's hornpipe is in D, in C| 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.

  • 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.

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