New John S. Kinnard Tenor Guitar

[Kevdog]

This is a new tenor guitar built for KinnardUkes by John S. Kinnard out of Fallbrook California.

East Indian Rosewood with Bear Claw Sitka top.
Incorporates a custom sound port
Slotted headstock with Gotoh tuning machines
22 7/8 scale with 1-1/2" nut

This was built as part of a project called the Tenor/Tenor consisting of a tenor ukulele with a matching tenor guitar. The idea is to attract uke players that want to play a steel string guitar- by using "Chicago Tuning" they can basically use the same fingerings as on a uke and can instantly begin to play. Our goal on this TG ws to get a deep, full tone and we were not disappointed.

If you would like to see a build thread on it and more pictures go to KinnardUkes.com and click on the Tenor/Tenor page.

[billhay4]

NIce. I'd like to hear it.
Bill

[Velorum]

Excellent!

The pathway you describe is pretty much how I came to the Tenor

[bigskygirl]

A friend of mine has a Kinnard uke and it's wonderful. I'll bet these are great as well.

[billhay4]

Kevin was nice enough to send me a sound clip of this lovely, and very lovely sounding instrument. I am attaching it here: Kinnard Tenor Guitar latest sound sample.mp3
for the rest of you to enjoy. Really superb work.
Bill

[Kevdog]

Here is a link to Soundcloud for a sound sample-

https://soundcloud.com/innardkuleles...t-sound-sample

[mds0725]

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I just found it and I wanted to post a sound sample Kevin made for the tenor guitar John Kinnard built for me after he built the one in this post. My tenor guitar has padauk back and sides and a bearclaw sitka spruce top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTxPbyJ7cA