Hi all, I am relatively new to this group and also very new to the tenor guitar so please have some patience with me. I recently purchased an instrument,...
What's your string length? A .010" string should tune up to A on 23" scale, but anything longer will need .090" or even .080". It may well be that your...
Hi Jack I'm also new to the group so we have something in common. But I'm not new to the tuning since I've played a tenor banjo (CGDA) too long to mention...
one of the things that I know about la bella silver coated tenor strings, besides being one of my favorite's is the 009 string just can't be tuned up to...
Congratulations, Julian. I couldn't remember posting this message so I've just checked and I posted this message in 2001. How come it's taken you so long for...
Hi Jack, Yes - you're on the right track. Check out our file on How To Fit an A string in the Files section. If you can find one, ask a friendly tenor banjo...
Apparently the guitar was on sale in a London shop for £1500, and then a friend of mine ("Findajo" - he has a web site and has tenor guitars for sale....
Thanks for the background information, Julian. Fascinating stuff! Findajo looks like a great site. Interesting Maccaferri style tenor guitar there! Cheers,...
Thank you all so much for your help. My A string broke right at the tuner so I will check to see if there is a problem there. I did manage to get the old...
Hmmm. .090 would be very thick. I think you mean .009 or .008. The problem here of course is that these are even thinner and therefore not as strong as a...
Agreed - I got my decimal place wrong! But modern A strings, .010", shouldn't break on a 23" scale. I regularly play a tenor banjo and cannot remember when I...
Well, that shows how closely I read. I didn't even catch the misplaced decimal, just read it as .009. At any rate, I picked up some .010 strings, D'Addario...
I have read every TGR posting from the 1st to the present(They are a ...international treasure). The diversity of tunings is amazing but confusing to me, and...
As you probably know GDAD is Irish Bouzouki tuning. Seems like a valid tuning for Irish music. I have no experience other than having heard bluegrass done in...
I've always kept my tenor guitar in CGDA as another instrument voice that doesn't overlap so much with the guitar player's bass line. I keep my bouzouki GDAE...
Hi, I've been having some fun playing the Bach Cello Suites on my tenor guitar. Since I have it tuned CGDA then it works well for the fingering since the ...
I would like to take this time to thank Mike for having this guitar made. I had thought that my guitar days were over after 50 years. But this instrument has...
I have also recently purchased a maple sunburst Arch Top tenor with one pickup.....and on a scale of one to ten, it's an eleven. If it had a Gibson logo at the...
Howdy folks my first post. I was going to buy a tenor to play along with my son who is a Texas style fiddle player. Here is what I was thinking about doing. I...
Yes they certainly would! I have tuned my tenors DGBD since I started playing them a couple of years ago. The sound is pretty good. There are several...
I also played banjo tunings on a tenor guitar for years, but I now use a plectrum guitar, which has the same scale length (about 26") and fret spacing as a...
After calling the local music shops and finding no Tenor i will be buying one off Ebay looks like. Any tips on what to look for or what not to get or if anyone...
Breedlove Guitars has their Tenor up on the their website now: http://www.breedloveguitars.com/instruments/guitars/revival/tenor/index. php 9th Fret Marker and...
Hi, A friend of mine just bought a mid 60s Goya. Sweet guitar, and not too expensive. Just make sure its form the 60s, you don't want one made after the name...
From a fellow banjoist I've played tenor banjo for years, added the tenor guitar from Mike and am now going for a bouzouki. all tuned CGDA Randy in Michigan ...
