I'm not sure how to embed a Facebook video but here's a Show Of Hands video of 'Roots' featuring Steve Knightley on tenor guitar (Phil Beer on mandolin and Miranda Sykes on bass)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153164165539098
I'm not sure how to embed a Facebook video but here's a Show Of Hands video of 'Roots' featuring Steve Knightley on tenor guitar (Phil Beer on mandolin and Miranda Sykes on bass)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153164165539098
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
try youtube
I have seen Show of Hands 5-6 times in my home town, never noticed a tenor guitar before but the last time was probably 15 years ago!
I like the sound of this group. Checked out a few more of their videos on you tube. Does anyone know what the tenor ukulele size instrument the guy on the left plays part of the time? The chord shapes don't look familier.
Dave Schneider
Cajun tenor!
Red McKenzie and his Mound City Blue Blowers with a very unusual large bodied tenor guitar...
The tenor is shown very well at about 3:05, I have no idea who made it.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
A repost of Red Mckinzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers with two early Vega tenor guitars......
Actually, one is a plectrum ( the one on the left ) and the other is a tenor.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Homenagem ao violão tenor
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
And another; Pedro Ramos
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
And while on my Choro with violao tenor kick here are a few other clips
I think this could be a rich seam to mine for examples, players and even sources of instruments;
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
Most of those have been posted before, on various violao tenor threads.. (as well as - I believe - this one!) But some have not; thanks!
Eoin: Do you (or anyone else) have any clue to what tuning they are using for the tenor in choro? It sounds like octave mandolin tuning which would make sense given the strong role of bandolimin this music
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Yep the comments I've read on some Choro forums and under some of the YouTube stuff all seem to be CGDA tuned. It seems to be fairly well established within the Choro genre, ftting really well between the cavaquinho and the violão.
http://choro-music.blogspot.co.uk/20...-dinamico.html Has some cool background info from " Jo" including;
"According to several sources, Garoto (Anibal Augusto Sardinha, 1915-55) introduced the tenor guitar in Brazil. Garoto had acquired a Triolian metal body 4 string tenor guitar similar to the one shown above, manufactured by the American National Instruments company, in 1933, but he was later to use a Brasilian made instrument of the same 'family', for which he is best known from numerous recordings during the 1930s and throughout his career, the Del Vechio tenor dinãmico."
Keeping with the sightings theme of the thread
Mentioned in the blog are DelVeccio instruments who make both the acoustic version and dinamico type
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Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
Apparently it featured quite heavily in the tours and concerts of the Bando Da Lua Boys with Carmen Miranda so there seem to be a good few videos up on YouTube with Álvaro Brochado Hilsdorf who renamed himself ÁLVARO DO VIOLÃO TENOR
Here are a few of the many examples I've found;
There are stacks of them but I don't want to turn the thread into all Choro tenor guitar sightings, but I think it's interesting how present it was& is again in Choro so it's worth highlighting a bit.
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Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
Steve Knightley uses a Cuatro - and like his tenor guitar it's built (like all his other instruments) by David Oddy & Son. He has said what the tuning is but I can't recall it - though I'm fairly sure there's an F#. Yes, you're right - it's not Uke tuning.
He uses it on a tune called Reynardine
apologies if that's in the link you were responding to..
My name is Rob, and I am Lord of All Badgers
Tenor Guitars: Acoustic: Mcilroy ASP10T, ‘59 Martin 0-18t. Electric: ‘57 Gibson ETG-150, ‘80s Manson Kestrel
Mandolins: Davidson f5, A5 "Badgerlin".
Bouzouki: Paul Shippey Axe
My band's website
A Tiny Grimes tune I have not heard before along with some cool photo's.....
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
I have posted this before on another thread but here is Gerry O Conner (an extremely accomplished tenor banjo player) playing his tenor guitar!
Playing with some friends a couple of weeks ago, we sang the Roger Miller song "King of The Road". When I looked it up on youtube I noticed a tenor guitar headstock in the lower left of the album cover. I have no idea what it could be, perhaps a custom Martin?
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Not sure. Yes could be a tenor guitar or a uke but, unless it is a custom as you say, I looked at a bunch of Martin tenor guitars and none has a dot on the third fret. Also, hard to tell but I think the Martin headstock flares out more than the one on that album cover.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Hey Jim, nice to hear from you. I agree now that it is not a Martin headstock.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Different kinda sighting but happens to be one I've not seen before:
Breedlove Revival Tenor Guitar on Craigslist
I came across this video on Rig Rundown on YouTube, you have to skip forward to 7:13 for the tenor guitar.
Counting Crows' Dave Bryson. I don't know how to embed so I have a link only.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5BoOnvfhQ
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