reel · Key of D

The maid of Athlone

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The maid of Athlone"The maid of AthloneReelanon. (Ireland)305405205402224202054052024525525205252032223D.C.33252050245054003252052520322204025075235032552D.C.Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 708

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ABC notation source
X:708
T:The maid of Athlone
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 708
R:Reel
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
A3G FAdB|AGFD EA, (3A,B,A,|ABAG FAdB|ABca fdd2H :|Tf2df Te2df|afeg fBBg|
Tf2df Te2dA|(3Bcd AG FDDg|Tf2df Te2df|afeg fBTB2|AFAB deba|(3fga eg fddB"_D.C." |]
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Questions about The maid of Athlone

  • The maid of Athlone is in D, in C| time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% 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 reel, 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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