jig · Key of D

The piper's welcome

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Irish tenor banjo tab

Sheet Music for "The piper's welcome"The piper's welcomeDouble jiganon. (Ireland)542400505420525404054240542400505424040040054240525255520505252023004052525552054240405424050250250542050250205424050205450542000424054240Book: Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 320

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X:320
T:The piper's welcome
C:anon.
O:Ireland
B:Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (1907) no. 320
R:Double jig
m:Tn2 = (3n/o/n/ m/n/
m:~n3 = no/4n/m/4n
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
dcB cAA|dAG FED|dBd cAF|AGF EFA|dcB cAA|dAG FEF|DFA DFA|AGF EFA:|
|:~d3 fdf|a2a afe|ded fdf|(e/f/g)e ecA|~d3 fdf|a2a afe|dcB cAF|AGF EFA:|
|:def def|dAG FED|def def|AGF EFA|def edc|dAG FED|TD2D FEF|AGF EFA:|
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Questions about The piper's welcome

  • The piper's welcome is in D, in 6/8 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.

  • It is a jig, written in 6/8.

  • 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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