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Another (terrific resource by the way) is to explore Pete Martin's offerings at http://www.petimarpress.com/books.html . Pete is often on the Jazz Forum here in the cafe and there are a load of his...

I try to what sounds right and what feels right. I have several different scale length instruments and for both melody and or chordal playing, each one requires listening to what I'm trying to...

The song is a true masterpiece - and your interpretation of Pops rendition is spot on Dave! Thanks for posting this on the unamplified guitar. That seems to make the tune even more timeless and...

Gianna, for a fiddler, the CGDa tuning is a Viola tuning. There are a lot of things which you can do with it which just sound - um - richer on a C tuned instrument. One other point, if you capo a C...

Dave, re tremolo ... many, if not most of this thread have arrived at TG's from a mandolin background. Tremolo or a variation of it is something we have to work at from the start. Now for a banjo,...

Thanks Dave, great interpretation on Thielmann's classic. A playing question now that you've resurfaced. Can you describe the different right hand technique between T Banjo and T guitar? I realize...

Christopher Fonda on Tenor, doing a Cab Calloway tune with some Slim Galliard and Scatman Crothers thrown in ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tPv0w2XjDM

There's a few of his Videos on You...

We play tenor guitars. We love a challenge, your chord are all there, and in the right order ... we can deal with it. And, thanks for the delightful piece of music.

Zed - In eastern Cuba: Guantanamo, Santiago, Holguin etc., most of the instruments I saw, seemed to be 3/4 size Classical guitars which were 'converted' to Tres Cubano by changing the nut and saddle...

On those odd, quiet playing times, I normally use my thumb and index finger only. For rhythm playing, I cluster my index and thumb and pull up an almost descant rhythm where I strum the low strings...

Nice little guitar and great playing - as usual. Next time you have it on a video, show the back of the head stock. There are a lot of us who have literally drawers full of old obsolete tuners stored...

Good on ya Fox! But you might have created a monster. If he's got the bug for four strings and is obviously aware of your very nice collection, keep a close inventory, unless of course he offers to...

This is his take on a twelve bar blues ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlaw2_MMM7E

Not bad for a guy who just started on tenor ...

And now, for something entirely different ... http://www.anonews.co/music-to-432-hz/ This is a tantalizing sideways look at tone, from a physics perspective. All it takes is a little bitty 8 herz...

You might want to explore http://www.cedarcreekcases.com/ . I have had two of them made for odd sized mandola instruments and while not inexpensive, they are well done. Many of their cases are custom...

I got a big kick out of the Violin / cello style tailpiece. Brilliant application! Have you tried a deep compensated bridge on it to both straighten out the bridge and increase sound level? I had to...

Thanks for posting this listing. I haven't seen or heard of this book before and, it seems to be out print. I found used copy for sale and have it ordered. As for the unusual chord shapes, you might...

Many, if not most of the early Tenor guitars were made for standard tenor banjo strings. These are extremely low tension strings to give brightness to the banjo. The convenience for trade off...

I own three Sawchyn instruments, a Beavertail Mandola, an A2 Mandolin and a long scale AO2 Octave / Bouzouki. These are all remarkable instruments both in sound, quality of build and finish and...

Eddie Davis has posted a new series of tenor guitar demonstrations ... this time on a Short Scale Breedlove guitar, in Viola tuning CGDA. What's different is he has strung the guitar on the interior...

Verne - I own a few resonator instruments and if they are set up properly, should have terrific sustain and a strong primary tone. These were built initially in the 1920's to stand up to brass bands...

Hmmmh I wonder what the case looks like and if the instrument (?) possibly came from one of the Siren's of the Odyssey? Looking at it again, it looks like a stage prop from a Pirandello play from the...

I work on my Jazz pieces as rhythm exercises and sometimes it is a real struggle. Occasionally I get inspired to play and explore various parts of Bach's cello preludes as either pick or finger...

I haven't seen (noticed) this one posted here before
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQMRskHg-BYTo my knowledge, this is the first time I've seen Jerry Thomasson in a video and he is solid. But then, so is...

This type of guitar has become fairly desirable lately and while there are a lot of them floating around, you have to keep on looking. Besides eBay there are often one or two listed here in the Cafe'...