Auld Lang Syne: notes for 9 instruments
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · G majorD4–G5 Harder
- KalimbaTabs · G majorD4–G5 Harder
- RecorderLetters · G majorD4–G5 Harder
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–C6 Harder
- ViolinLetters · G majorD4–G5 Harder
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–C5 Harder
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–F5 Harder
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–G5 Harder
- HarmonicaTabs · F majorC5–F6 Harder
Not on bells & xylophone: no key keeps every note on that instrument without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should
auld acquaintance be forgot, And days of auld lang syne?
About this song
- Melody
- Scottish air, 1799
- Words
- Robert Burns (1759–1796), 1796 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1799, words 1796: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Franklin Square Song Collection (Harper & Brothers, 1881), p. 104 (1881)