Tenor Guitar, Tenor Guitar

They can be acoustic and/or electric and they can come in the form of flat top, archtop, wood-bodied or metal-bodied resonator or solid-bodied instruments. Tenor guitars normally have a scale length (from bridge to nut) of between 21 and 23 inches.

Dobro, another company formed by the Dopyera Brothers, as well as National Instruments, also built resonator tenor guitars. In 1983, Klira, a German manufacturer, built 30 handmade jazz-tone, TG-58 tenor guitars. This very rare tenor guitar was sold in Switzerland in 2002 for 12,000 Euros.

Gary Lee Moore has produced an excellent teaching resource for playing the tenor guitar as backup for Texas fiddling, entitled Getting Started in Fiddle Backup , obtainable as a free pdf download - see External Links.

The tuning and scale length give this very unusual four string guitar a sonority that is very close to that of the six string guitar, compared to a regular tenor guitar.

Tiny used guitar (DGBE) tuning on his tenor guitars, rather than tenor CGDA tuning.

The commemorative set included a custom Martin Kingston Trio KT-18T tenor guitar with "The Kingston Trio" and 1957-1997 engraved on the fingerboard in mother-of-pearl and its label was signed by C. F. Martin IV, the CEO of Martin Guitars and 4 of the surviving members of the Kingston Trio.

Indeed, Martin Guitars have recently released a new production tenor guitar - the Martin LXM Tenor "Little Martin" since they stopped regular production of the Martin 0-18T tenor in the late 1970s.

Elvis Costello features a tenor guitar on the title track of his 2004 release Delivery Man . On the video for "Club Date: Elvis Costello & the Imposters Live in Memphis" he is seen playing an orange 1958 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 single cutaway archtop tenor guitar.

Original tenor guitars in good condition by any of the major guitar makers are considered very desirable, both as instruments for playing, and as interesting collectibles in their own right.

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