hornpipe · Key of A
Gillespie's Hornpipe
Irish tenor banjo tab
ABC notation source
X:1741
T:Gillespie's Hornpipe
M:2/4
L:1/16
N:"collected by J. O'Neill"
B:O'Neill's 1741
R:Hornpipe
K:A
(ed) | cBAc BAGB | Aaga fecA | GBEB Bcdf | edcd B2(ed) |
cBAc BAGB | Aaga fecA | GABc defg | a2A2 A2 :|
|: (cd) | eaga eaga | eaga fecA | GABc dcde | fedc B2(cd) |
eaga eaga | eaga fecA | GABc defg | a2A2 A2 :|FAQ
Questions about Gillespie's Hornpipe
Gillespie's Hornpipe is in A, in 2/4 time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.
Easy. 95% 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 2/4.
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.