New here and new Tenor Guitar
Greetings,
This is my first post here. I have not played guitar or mandolin much in the last ten years because of arthritis in my left wrist. I took up the ukulele when I was 9 and go reinterested in 2009. The ukulele has been my main instrument since 2009 but I missed having something in a lower register. I picked up a tenor guitar and settled on octave mandolin tuning GDAE. The tenor seems to work out for my wrist, having fun playing a new instrument.
My wife and I do music together but it will be nice to be able to play with the rest of the band in person soon.
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Welcome Tug, what make and model have you got?
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My mandolin is an Alvarez Arkansas Traveler and the Tenor is and Ashbury AT-40
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oooh the slippery slope begins :) I have six tenor guitars.... it'll happen ha ha
Mine are all tuned in variants of GDAE (favs are GDAD, GDGD), some are pure electric, a couple are acoustic.
Welcome!
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the At-40 is a great starter tenor :) in fact - it'll last you a while so hardly "beginner"!
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Nice to meet you Tug. Newbie here as well.
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Lord of the Badgers
oooh the slippery slope begins :) I have six tenor guitars.... it'll happen ha ha
Mine are all tuned in variants of GDAE (favs are GDAD, GDGD), some are pure electric, a couple are acoustic.
Welcome!
I am trying to resist "Tenor Acquisition Syndrome". This tenor is good enough for me to work with. My wife and I have an unwritten rule that we can only own as many
instruments as we can squeeze into the closet in her office and it is overflowing. I must admit that after playing mostly ukulele for the last 12 years the frets on the tenor seem like a reach and I could imagine a smaller scale tenor and of course it would be nice to have one tuned in fourths...
@88keys - Thanks
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I swapped my tenor over to GDAE too, and that instrument has a whole new life. I'm really enjoying playing it now, after years of intermittent interest with CGDA tuning. Welcome to the Cafe Tug!
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Tug
I am trying to resist "Tenor Acquisition Syndrome".
LOL
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Tug
it would be nice to have one tuned in fourths...
down with that sort of thing! :))