I noticed several interesting Tenors on eBay when I checked it a bit ago. What are the two NEW ones? Are they the Lark in the Morning ones? The "Handmade...
Yes, I do believe that the "lark" tenors have made it to E-bay, and if there was ever an easy excuse not to pay $350 for a Harmony archtop with painted on...
On e-bay, the seller claims it's from the 20s or 30s, but the headstock logo is painted on rather than inlaid. Didn't painted logos start in the 50s?...
... logos ... spectrum, because the later painted-on logos seem to have more "modern" letters and the headstock sides are more "curved", this one they look...
The Regal tenor I bought on eBay came in today. I paid $105 for it, and was worried about winding up with an eBay mess like I read about now and then. It...
Had a chance to exchange instruments and play a few songs with Mark Josephs last Saturday. I am just an amateur but what a pleasure to try and keep up with a...
"PackRat", there are many great Web resources at your disposal, but should you want hardcopy without having to sit around hitting the print button, the Mel Bay...
Hi folks, two things: First I want to introduce my new online chord finder for 4-string instruments: http://chordfind.com/4-string Check it out, it supports...
I'm new to tenor guitars, coming from from playing a mandolin and a cello, though, so I'm very interested in learning. I play mostly jazz and blues. I'm...
I dropped my old Martin off for a tune-up and some other work and am having it restrung cgda. Where can I get the Mel Bay book? PackRat ... but ... has ... ...
A very few of us have been meeting at PalTalk on Wednesday afternoons to play and BS. I have another commitment this Wednesday so the room will not be open....
I have played a baritone uke for many years. The lower string is a metal wound string. Your are right it is just the same as the top four strings of a guitar...
I got my Mel Bay Tenor Banjo Chord Book via mail order, but a big music store might stock it. They must have hundreds of web pages that you can order on, and I...
For those of you interested in DGBE tuning. Mel Bay has at least two books on Baritone Ukuleles which use that tuning. Check on eBay under Baritone Ukulele. ...
Steve, thanks for that link! Another great list of songs, I took a few to learn, and what a collection of recordings, enough for at least ten Cds!!DGW...
David, I'm glad you liked it - some of these (tenor) banjo and mandolin family guys have really put a lot of effort into their web sites to produce great...
I've just posted six photos of the fantastic National Style #4 tenor guitar that Greg Beeton built for me last year. It has the style of engraving known as ...
That message came out terribly jumbled up for some very strange reason with Greg's e-mail address missing - the e-mail address is: beetonguitars@... ...
Dan, I'm glad you liked the National Style #4 guitar. Greg also reset the neck of my 1920s pear-shaped National tricone tenor, as well as replacing its...
Hello all, I'm glad to see that there is a group that exists for this interesting instrument. I recently became familar with the tenor guitar because of a...
The "Collectables" label has released at least 3 Condon sets: #7525,#7526, and #7527, which are 1950s era Condon EPs/LPs(?) and they are paired up as follows:...
What is the instrument listed on eBay as #2507666198? It is listed as a Baritone Uke, and is about the right size, but I never saw a Uke like that. Anybody...
Bob I doubt it is a baritone uke as it looks earlier than the fifties and has a banjo type headstock and pegs also there is a tailpiece so looks like it has...
Theres was recent 4 cd set that is execellant, dont have the title of it in front of me but it was discussed in past messages on this board. I have seen the...
Willy, The four CD set of Eddie Condon that I think you are referring to is the one released by JSP - Eddie Condon, The Classic Sessions 1928-1949 and it,...
Hi everyone, I'm looking at a 1920 Vega tenor guitar and am thinking of buying it, providing I can change the tuning to GDAE like the instruments I already...
Aoife- Assuming the most typical 23" scale for tenor guitar, the gauges I use in the closely related GDAD tuning are: G- .047 wound D- .032 wound A- .020 wound...
You may want to consider going with the CGDA tuning rather than the GDAE, because this gives you a greater range of keys you can play in. What you know in the...
