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Thanks for the advice, Huck! I've just spent a couple of hours watching Tiny Grimes videos, and his music and his playing style are really growing on me!



Nah -- I've tried that, and just got...

That's great information! I hadn't seen that anywhere else. Uh...how am I supposed to measure the tension?



The Harmony is their H950T "Monterey".
As near as I can make out the crude...

Well, that's part of my confusion. Since I'm coming to this without already being that familiar with 6-string tuning, I'm a blank slate and I could learn whatever tuning I choose. I was hoping that...

Hello all --

I've got a couple of old archtop tenors (Kay all-mahogany, Harmony "Monterey") and I'd like to learn how to play. I've never been able to satisfactorily play any kind of fretted...

Yeah, as far as I can tell, that's the situation. But I think I might prefer to have all four strings be plain, rather than have the lowest string be wound; I think it might sound "unbalanced" or...

Oh! I didn't recognize it without the tobacco 'burst! And being shot straight-on like that, it almost looked like a flat-top. Looks great either way. Did you refinish it?

Here's an example of CGCG: https://youtu.be/pjpRTkHIBLA?t=29s and one of GDAD: https://youtu.be/XElNHYfiqiw?t=15s

Perhaps one or the other of these might be a bit too much tension for my tenor,...

I'm thinking of an open G tuning.



Whoa -- very nice!
Was the neck off of a "donor" guitar, from a parts place, or did you make it from scratch?

Thanks. Yeah, I have a baritone uke (a cheap "Kent" from the '60s). But I wanted something with a scale-length between that and a standard acoustic guitar, so I picked up the 1950s Harmony Monterey...

No, as I understand it, they use fluorocarbon for the treble strings; the bass strings are still wound. But as the tenor guitar only has four strings, I was thinking of using all fluorocarbon...

Please forgive me if this falls under the heading of questions that shouldn't be asked. (It doesn't seem to have been asked here before -- or at least the "search" feature didn't turn up any...