hornpipe · Key of D
No.2 The sailor's hornpipe
Irish tenor banjo tab
ABC notation source
X:827 T:No.2 The sailor's hornpipe C:anon. O:Ireland B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 827 R:hornpipe %Title in index: "Sailor's hornpipe, No. 2" M:C| L:1/8 K:D (3ABc | dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afaf bagf | edcB A2 (fe) |\ dcdB FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :| |: (3efg | afaf d2 (ga) | bgbg e2 (fg) | afaf bagf | edcB A2 (fe) |\ dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :|
FAQ
Questions about No.2 The sailor's hornpipe
No.2 The sailor's hornpipe is in D, in C| 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 7.
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.