hornpipe · Key of D

No.2 The sailor's hornpipe

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "No.2 The sailor's hornpipe"No.2 The sailor's hornpipehornpipeanon. (Ireland)30245450405205420235252753205420205452405205420235253730455530235252535737302352527532054202054504052054202352537304555Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 827

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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. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • 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. 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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