hornpipe · Key of D

Fisher's hornpipe

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "Fisher's hornpipe"Fisher's hornpipehornpipeanon. (Ireland)3024554052054004520540523205400024554052054004520540502526000033450545023025502352054203205424054255552452044440240245025260000Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 825

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X:825
T:Fisher's hornpipe
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 825
R:hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
(3ABc | dGFA GBAG | FADF GBAG | FAdf gfed |ce A2 A2 (Bc) |\
dGFA GBAG | FADF GBAG | FAdA BGEC | D2 DD D2 :|
|:(cd) | edcd efge | fdde fgaf | edcB Agfe | dcBc A2 (dc) |\
B>G (3.G.G.G BcdB | A>F (3.F.F.F ABcA | BcdA BGEC | D2 DD D2 :|
FAQ

Questions about Fisher's hornpipe

  • Fisher's hornpipe is in D, in C| time. The D 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 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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