Tenor Guitar Gallery & Sightings

[Charles E.]

Adelaide is looking good. Looks like she is playing a Martin style 5 tenor.

[Beanzy]

Another one, with Charlotte C onher Bryn Munford Tenor

[Earle Ford]

A couple videos of me playing my old Gold Tone Tenor. Now I'm playing on a custom made Dell'Arte Tenor modeled after Django's guitar. I love it! My mind naturally thinks in fifths so I find it easier than regular Guitar but I prefer to tune down an octave from a Mandolin instead of a fifth which is true tenor tuning. I don't meet too many people who play tenor's in 5ths.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfBVgDUc4GE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g7DxA1eczA

[rowbear]

The Three Little Bops cookin' at the Straw House, circa 1958. Dig that crazy lute!



Video here.

[mrmando]

Here's Karin Bergquist of Over the Rhine in a publicity shot for the band's latest album. Couldn't find any performance shots with this instrument, but it looks stage-ready.

[Charles E.]

Some good blues but at eight min. is a National Triolian tenor guitar player and an oildrum bass. Cool stuff, not sure who the guitar player is.

[Charles E.]

Here it is...

[Charles E.]

Here's Karin Bergquist of Over the Rhine in a publicity shot for the band's latest album. Couldn't find any performance shots with this instrument, but it looks stage-ready.

Her friend in the hat does not look very happy.

[rowbear]

Her friend in the hat does not look very happy.

Nor does she. Maybe the photographer was sporting an "I Love Heavy Metal" neck tie.

Ooooh... in-dig-na-tion.

[MartinTaylor]

Here's Mike McCarthy playing his Tenor for the first time live. It was only finished being built 24 hrs earlier. Sounded great!

[kmmando]

Two tenors and a mandolin - mine

[Charles E.]

Nice trio Kevin. How does the tone of the single cone compare to the tri cone?

[cb56]

Just purchased my first tenor. Should be arriving later this week.
I'm coming to tenor by way of ukulele so I'll probably tune DGBE and capo 5th fret. At least to start out.

Probably look for an acoustic tenor at some time also.

[ambrosepottie]

Here it is...

Anyone else notice the first guy in this video who may or may not be Blind Connie Williams does a few bottleneck licks....without a slide. Incredible playing and singing.

[Charles E.]

He does have a slide, it is a short glass ring on his pinky.

[rowbear]

Merry Christmas everybody. All the best in the year to come.

[mrmando]

Some good blues but at eight min. is a National Triolian tenor guitar player and an oildrum bass. Cool stuff, not sure who the guitar player is.

It's Charlie Burse of the Memphis Jug Band; the bass player is Will Shade. Here's a longer version of the same film clip with an introduction.

[mrmando]

Nor does she. Maybe the photographer was sporting an "I Love Heavy Metal" neck tie.

Ooooh... in-dig-na-tion.

He's saying: Maybe that G chord shouldn't have an open C in the bass. She's saying: Too late, bub, we already pressed the CDs. That is Karin's husband, Linford, and I'm sure they both have plenty to be happy about, but who knows, maybe one of their dogs was sick that day. The photo captures their style of brooding Americana quite well, methinks. One of my longtime favorite bands.

[MdJ]

Great clip mr mando ! Many thanks for posting the whole thing.

That sure looks and sounds to me like a plectrum scale guitar rather than a tenor........makes it even more interesting to me if it is....

All the best

MdJ

[rowbear]

That sure looks and sounds to me like a plectrum scale guitar rather than a tenor.

At first glance it looks long enough to be a plectrum, but after comparing it to the Style 1 National plectrum at Notecannons I'm not so sure. The site is written in frames so I can't give a direct link but scroll the left hand menu to Plectrum Guitars to have a look. Then compare it to the '31 Style 3 under Tenor Guitars - it seems closer in length and fret markers to what C. Burse is playing.

Pretty remarkable collection at Notecannons ain't it?

[mando.player]

[jfonner]

Kentucky Graham plays in a great "old-time" band in Cincinnati called Jake Speed & the Freddies. They were a featured band the last time Garrison Keillor did the Prairie Home Companion show in Cincinnati. I "discovered" the tenor guitar watching Kentucky Graham - I have a 1931 Gibson TB-1 banjo and made the connection to the tenor guitar when I realized he was only playing four strings. I now own a 1967 O-18T Martin, 1947 Harmony H-1215 archtop, 1952 H-929 Harmony flattop and a 2008 Blueridge BR-40T. Who needs 6?

[kmmando]

Hi Charles, here's some clips of the instruments.
the single cone is more mid/bass honky than the treble rich and more complex tricone. I like them both equally though I play the tricone more.

[jfonner]

This is a publicity picture of the Delmore Brothers, country ("hillbilly") music pioneers, from the 1940's. Rabon Delmore played a Martin o-18T throughout their perfoming career which spanned from the 1930's to the 50's. The Delmore's were early stars on the Grand Ol' Opry and toured & recorded extensively with legends like Uncle Dave Macon, Grandpa Jones, Merle Travis and gave mandogiant, Bill Monroe, an early break in his career.

[cb56]

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