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It is interesting to try to fathom out the misty connections which are the disparate parts of roots music. I've always been tantalized with tunes like Creole Belle, Walk Right in, Stealin' and a lot...

Neat idea. Did they physically shorten the neck at the nut? How was that spliced?

I've looked at those sets from Elderly (and at the Aquila site) a few times and wonder if the 2 inch scale length difference in a Tenor will make it tunable?

Has anyone tried this on a Tenor?

Normally - the pickup closest to the bridge creates a brighter, more metallic sound, the one nearest the fretboard is a bit more mellow or 'fat'. The blend of the two is when things get interesting. ...

Yeah - that works ... I went to a Pro Arte classical guitar set (normal tension) at about 6 bucks a set and it worked really well. For more information explore this site for 'Tiny Tenors' or Tenor...

Set up and intonation issues on any fretted instrument is / can be a vexing problem. A suggestion or two ... take a look at Frank Ford's web site, frets.com.

And this page which is a bit...

That's a nifty idea and I hope it keeps working for you. I have a few Bari's sitting around and did set one up for CGda and it worked fairly well but not as notable or brite as a Kala Tenor I own. If...

This came as a surprise when I looked up Pete Martin on Youse Tube ... Pete isn't in this particular cut but - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZGvTunaLCU An interesting take on Texas Swing. I don't...

Royal Garden Trio - These guys have been mentioned here before ... After watching the Chenille Sisters on PBS Backstage pass (The back up group is in the first half of the program), I blundered into...

This is happening in Paraguay - http://www.dump.com/orchestratrash/

definitely worth watching and - well just watch it.

An interesting impasse ... on a few floating bridge instruments which have passed through here, what I experimented with was to either carve a new or temporary replacement bridge saddle (or two) from...

Great tunes Kevin ... I had to click the 'Vimeo' hot button on the low right hand corner of each video to get them to play on my slightly obsolete computer. Worth the effort.

Thanks

As there are almost ten different head diameters, the neck length is at best a distraction. Measure your fret board from the nut to the twelfth fret, then multiply it by two. That will give you the...

Great suggestions all. A good set up makes playing / learning a much more enjoyable experience. But if you want to get strength and muscle memory when you aren't playing one way to approach that is...

He is remarkable ... To do what he does on what could possibly be described as an Alto Cavaqhino really amazes me. If you watch him carefully, Eddy normally uses a three fret placement for his...

This one just appeared on Youse Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_hEG1vn1p8&feature=em-uploademail I have no idea if this will be loadable as - it is ahead of the search engine at this time. I...

Pete - are any of your many books directly pertinent to CGDa tuning? I know how to convert and shift around on mandolin oriented music but my brain seems to be aging faster than the rest of me ...
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Lately my Tenor uke tuned CGda is my all around, go to instrument. It's the only C tuned instrument which is almost never kept in its case. I picked up a Kala tenor cut away (with pick up) and find...

I've played the Gold Tone and a Blue Ridge 40 and both were comfortable players but not overwhelming in sound. I almost always play in C tuning and found both instruments to be a bit on the light...

Hi - one of the most useful ... but slightly canted for a Tenor Guitar player is found in Ray Bells' remarkable book, Mandolin Scales and Studies ( http://elderly.com/books/items/02-95542.htm ). This...

Just watch the A string ... I've had to polish the internal edges of the A string tuner on two guitars to keep the strings from breaking at that point. Both of these were on long scale instruments...

Depending on the scale length of your guitar, a set of Octave Mandolin strings is a good way to start. Often, you have to mix some of the interior strings to get the tension where it's playable. Also...

Very versatile Germano. The original tradition, seemingly the reason for creating this instrument, was to replace the tenor banjo and give tenor banjo players a way of staying employed. As the...

It seems that a lot of the older string sets were designed for older Mandola's with shorter scales. The early Gibson's, Stahl's and even the rare Martins had 15 3/4" (395mm) to 16" (405mm) length...

re loop ends on a pin bridge guitar. Jack Spira came up with a nifty trick for his pin bridge instruments ... he drills a hole across the channel for the strings. What you do is thread the string...