hornpipe · Key of A
Hawk's Hornpipe
Irish tenor banjo tab
ABC notation source
X:1754
T:Hawk's Hornpipe
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"collected by McFadden"
B:O'Neill's 1754
R:Hornpipe
K:A
(ed) | c2 EF G2 EF | GFGA GAcd | egec AdcA | GFEF G2 (FG) |
AGAB cBcA | dcde g2 (fg) | ((3agf) ge fdec |1 A2 (3AAA AGAB :|2 A2 (3AAA Acef ||
|: gfga gfed | cdef gfed | eaab c'bag | e2 a2 a2 (ef) |
((3gfe) af ((3gfe) dB|cdeg g2 (fg)|((3agf) ge fdec|1 A2 (3AAA Acef:|2A2 (3AAA A2|]FAQ
Questions about Hawk's Hornpipe
Hawk's Hornpipe is in A, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.
Harder. 91% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 9.
It is a hornpipe, written in C|.
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.