Joel,<br><br>Thanks for the reply. I'm still waiting for that Selmer Maccaferri book but my luthier friend Doug who makes Maccaferri style guitars located a ...
When I was showing my little collection of tenor guitars recently at ther Guitar Fest in Brisbane, one keen young guy came up wanting to buy a jazz tenor ...
I managed to cull this little bit of information about Tiny Grimes from the Internet which confirms the four string guitar connection:<br><br>b. Lloyd Grimes, ...
Steve, Tiny grimes was an excellent tenor guitarist, one of the best. He played in guitar tuning, mostly electric. There's some excellent recordings of him...
Joel,<br><br>Thanks for the information. After I posted the message, I did notice that there were quite a few re-issues of his work on CD including the kilted ...
Hey group - Check out the June issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine. In the "Jump Street" section they cover jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and his use of a...
Hey Group - Check out a new group out of Austin called Shorty Long. <a href=http://www.shortylong.com target=new>http://www.shortylong.com</a><br><br>The core...
Cosmic Uke,<br><br>Big thanks for the tip from me as well. I looked up the site and downloaded the MP3s. They are fabulous - I just love that style of music....
Hi All,<br><br>I'm new to the group and am excited to be apart of it.<br><br>My name is Ted and I have spent the last two years researching the life and guitar...
Sorry, it wouldn't let me post the entire message because it was too long....<br><br>To do this he needed a different method of string and came up with the...
Ted,<br><br>This is just to thank you for taking the trouble to contact me privately about the EFS and to place such a large posting which was in effect a ...
Ted, Thanks for the info. Is there any EF stuff on LP or CD. I'm intrigued by your thoughts on EF's tuning. My impression from reading the Selmer book was that...
Although I've never heard of Eddie Freeman, I think this thread is quite interesting. For those of you who are playing around with different string gauges, I...
Follow-up:<br><br>Actually, there are a couple of sites with string calculators in my bookmarks and I inadvertently pulled the one I use less. I usually use...
Hi Joel,<br><br>Thanks for your messege. The problem with Eddie's Melody Maker articles (which was the source of the information in the Selmer book) is that he...
Hi Again!<br><br>I have Eddie's entire discography and it will be listed on the web site. The problem, of course, is that he is very difficult to hear! All of...
No, I'm not going to solve this one today, BUT just for yuks I tried restringing the D and A strings on my trusty old Stella with a .036 and a .024 (which is...
You're the man! <br><br>Were you using wound guitar strings for the bottom two and then the wound banjo .036 and .024 for the D and A? If so than that's what I...
Hi!<br><br>Has anyone every come across some high end Gibson archtop tenors? Like the L7's used by Condon or even the D'Angelico's? I know that Mandolin ...
Ted,<br><br>Following on from this posting. I know you have already indicated that the G string should be a regular wound guitar A string (.036) and the D...
As we have been talking Maccaferri tenor guitars so much, I have now finally added the photo of my Doug Foster Maccaferri style tenor guitar which was made in...
You're not being thick at all! In fact, you caught my blunder. The guages, from low to high should be as follows:<br>C - .46 (or higher) guitar string, usually...
Ted,<br><br>Many thanks for the clarification. It makes much more sense to me now. Am I correct in assuming this would apply to both normal tenor length neck ...
I have just been sent a JPEG taken of my tenor guitar display at the Brisbane International Guitar Festival (BIGFest) held two weeks ago, by the organiser so I...
Ted, I just want to clarify that didn't use your tuning. The gauges I tried are:<br><br>C- .036<br>G- .024<br>D- .036 (I would probably use about a .032 ...
Now I see what you're saying - my mistake. You're playing with a re-entry tuning and you're following the same path Freeman did. In the Melody Maker articles, ...
Hi Steve,<br><br>Thanks for posting the photo. What a neat looking guitar!<br><br>As for the longer scale. I think that you could do it if you were able to ...
Steve, Thanks for posting the pic of you and your wife and Mom at Bigfest. Your collection is truly amazing. Earnest Instruments was the first link I set up ...
Ted,<br><br>Can you please explain the meaning of the term 're-entry tuning' - this is the second time I have seen reference to it in the Maccaferri...
