hornpipe · Key of D
No.1 The sailor's hornpipe
Irish tenor banjo tab
ABC notation source
X:826 T:No.1 The sailor's hornpipe C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 826 R:hornpipe %Title in index: "Sailor's hornpipe, No. 1" M:C| L:1/8 K:D (AG) | FAdc d2 (AG) | FAdc d2 (A^G) | Aced cBA^G | Aced cBA=G |\ FAdc d2 (AG) | FAdc d2 A2 | BcdB cdec | f2 d2 d2 :| |: (ef) | gfge c2 (Ac) | dcdB A2 (GF) | GABG FGAF | EDEF E2 (ef) |\ gfge c2 (ec) | dcdB A2 (^GA) | BcdB cdec | f2 d2 d2 :|
FAQ
Questions about No.1 The sailor's hornpipe
No.1 The sailor's hornpipe is in D, in C| time. On a GDAE instrument it sits in first position.
Easy. 97% 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. 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.