View Full Version : Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
Spruce
Jan-19-2010, 1:03am
Saw this puppy at a recent vintage guitar show down here in SoCal...
Got all excited, and then was informed they aren't all that coveted?
The thing sounded good to me....
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/e_stamp/Guitar%20Show/P1040493.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/e_stamp/Guitar%20Show/P1040504.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/e_stamp/Guitar%20Show/P1040506.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee22/e_stamp/Guitar%20Show/P1040500-1.jpg
Charles E.
Jan-19-2010, 9:39pm
did ya get it? :)
Spruce
Jan-20-2010, 12:55am
Nah...
He wanted 1.3K....
GD Armstrong
Jan-20-2010, 2:28am
What a little sweety!
SincereCorgi
Jan-20-2010, 6:25pm
They had one at Gryphon Strings in Palo Alto about a half a year ago that went for about that price. I got there too late to try it, but one of the staff told me it was probably being returned anyway due to 'intonation problems'.
allenhopkins
Jan-22-2010, 1:56am
Nice koa, anyway...
SincereCorgi
Feb-13-2010, 8:20pm
That Weissenborn was back at Gryphon Strings today- got a chance to play it and found it really, really weird. The scale length was quite long and it seemed to be tuned something like A D G B (the intervals, at any rate, low to high), which was a new one for me- kind of a plectrum banjo tuning I guess? It was an interesting object, but I can't imagine it as anything but a curiosity in most contemporary musical settings.
http://www.gryphonstrings.com/instpix/31606/31606.php
delsbrother
Feb-14-2010, 2:20am
It wouldn't surprise me if Weissenborn made plectrum guitars as well.
Jim Garber
Feb-14-2010, 10:48am
With a 27 inch scale that Gryphon one is a plectrum guitar. Normal tuning would be cgbd (like a 5 string without the fifth).
Yes, maybe not coveted by steel players but they are Weissenborns nonetheless.