hornpipe · Key of D

Sailor's Hornpipe, The

O’Neill 1903 no. 1577

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The Sailor's Hornpipe"The Sailor's Hornpipehornpipe0540545054054506040542060405420540545054054502452450425502323040454520545025450421242023230404545206024524504255Book: O'Neill's 1577Notes:"No. 1"

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X:1577
T:Sailor's Hornpipe, The
R:hornpipe
N:"No. 1"
B:O'Neill's 1577
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 (ec) | dcdB A2 (GF) | GABG FGAF | E^DEF E2 (ef) |
gfge c2 (ec) | dcdB A2 (^GA) | BcdB cdec | f2 d2 d2 :||
FAQ

Questions about Sailor's Hornpipe, The

  • Sailor's Hornpipe, The is in D, in C| time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • 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. 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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