The Old Vest and Cravat
O’Neill 1903 no. 1698
Irish tenor banjo tab
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X:1698 T:The Old Vest and Cravat M:4/4 L:1/8 B:O'Neill's 1698 N:"collected by F.O'Neill" K:D F-G \ | ABGA FGAB | cBcA d2 d-e | fedcAGFG | Adced2F-G | | ABGA FGAB | cBcAd2 d-e | fedcAGED | D2DDD2 :| |: F-G \ | Addef2 e-d | dcAGA2A-G | Addef2 e_d | dced d2d-e | | fdef defg | fdcA cdef | dfed cAGE | D2DDD2 :|
Questions about The Old Vest and Cravat
The Old Vest and Cravat is in D, in 4/4 time. The D major scale gives you every note it uses.
Very easy. 100% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 5.
The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.
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.