hornpipe · Key of D

Sailor's Hornpipe, The

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Sailor's Hornpipe"The Sailor's Hornpipehornpipe3024545040520542023525275320542020Tenor Banjo54524052054202352537304555Tenor Banjo302352525357373023525275320542020Tenor Banjo54524052054202352537304555Tenor BanjoBook: O'Neill's 1578Notes:"No. 2"
ABC notation source
X:1578
T:Sailor's Hornpipe, The
R:hornpipe
N:"No. 2"
B:O'Neill's 1578
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) |
dcdB FAdf | edcB A2 (fg) | afdg bgec | d2 d2 d2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Sailor's Hornpipe, The

  • Sailor's Hornpipe, The 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.

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