I finally purchased a tenor guitar, a mid-30s vintage Kalamazoo flattop. It has a great tone, and is in excellent shape for its age. But...these guitars have a...
Hi Ted your question is strangley phrased but I think I get your drift.<br>NO, perhaps I don't now I think of it.<br>Are you asking What is the difference ...
HI Scott I don't think we have met yet. Dave Hodson here nice to meet you.<br>I build Selmer style guitars etc,.<br>The top of a Selmer style guitar is also ...
Here's an idea that's gonna make tenor purists squirm. My 11 year old daughter loves to hold and play my Stella tenor. I think the neck fits her hand well. I'd...
Not a big deal at all! In fact, I believe that well-known tenor guitarist Tiny Grimes used that tuning (although I'm not sure). I think that they call that ...
Hi Dave,<br><br>You read it correctly, but let me be more specific. What I'm interested in knowing is the difference in tone of a indian rosewood -vs- mahagony...
You are frightening me Ted. <br>First, Your Eddie freeman MUST BE A COPY???????????<br>Am I wrong???<br>Eddie Freeman,s DID NOT HAVE THE INNER CHAMBER FITTED. ...
Hi Dave, you're party correct.<br><br>Half copy, half real.<br><br>The neck, tuners and tailpiece are all original, from 1933, the body was custom made by ...
My message 371 seems to have got lost.<br>Having now read your message 369 were you say Dupont built, it I am suprised he did not tell you that the EFS had NO...
I've just reread your message again and I can't wait for you to come back on line. For God's sake Ted. Even if it is a copy don't touch it. The guy who built ...
Hi,<br><br>Yes, I did know that the originals had so sound chamber and Paul Hostetter also warned me, but like I said before I wanted to take the idea of the...
You're right, I know you are. While I was really excited about getting the original pieces, I was pretty frustrated that someone would do that to an original,...
I see my missing message has turned up at last.<br>The review by my (now) friend Andy is several years old and one or two of the guitars from that era I have...
Ted,<br><br>You mentioned Eddie Condon and his tuning and I have always wanted to know about him. I know he was a banjoist who then played four string guitar...
Hi Steve!<br><br>Eddie Condon played PLECTRUM tuning. He was a plectrum banjo player. I bought his CD. You can't really hear him on the CD I have. He'sa ...
I've been sorting through the latest flurry of posts with some interest. On the subject of the tone chamber, Paul Hostetter is an excellent luthier/repair ...
Thanks, David, and nice to meet you! I've seen the pictures of your guitars, they look VERY nice!<br>I'll follow your suggestion about the strings, and...
Purism as far as tenor guitars go is, to me, kind of silly, since the tenor guitar is far from a "pure" instrument anyway, having evolved from the tenor banjo,...
Plectrum it was. In his book "We Called It Music" he explains the tuning that he used which was plectrum. I spoke to his daughter when I was writing an article...
Hi Joel,<br><br>I mean no offense, but I'm curious to know how you find the subject of tonewoods having little relevance to the group, considering that they...
Thanks to Mark, Tom and Ted for interesting replies to my question. I had always suspected that Eddie played plectrum but I was not sure. I suppose that is ...
My comments about post subjects and messages may have been misunderstood (and after rereading it myself, I'm not surprised). I think the the subject of ...
When you can hear Condon's playing, it's basic 4 to the bar comping, very banjo-like in a steady, insistant way, deceptively simple: in reality he was the ...
Very interesting postings about Eddie Condon from Tom and Joel. It's amazing how close those times are to us - Joel's friend Eddy knowing Mrs Condon and Joel...
After reading all of the messages about different woods...I wanted to add my own observations. First of all....I appreciate a great sounding well made...
