You spoke of the possibility of Alzheimer’s or building your defenses against it. Tenor guitar is a good tool for that being a different voice for your musical brain. If you want to try harder you’ll...
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You spoke of the possibility of Alzheimer’s or building your defenses against it. Tenor guitar is a good tool for that being a different voice for your musical brain. If you want to try harder you’ll...
Yes John. The bridge suits the new fan-frets. The nut remains in the same place which makes it more comfortable (less strain) playing barre chords on the lower frets
That lute was reported stolen in 1521. I hope you changed the serial number in that one, otherwise the new owner could risk being charged with receiving stolen property.
212607 I decided to pull the frets off my mandolin and do a refret. I reprofiled the neck while I was at it & fitted a manufactured stone nut.
CGDA in viola is alto viola. GDAE in viola is tenor viola. I happen play an 18” tenor viola. Then if you tune a small cello to GDAE it’s generally called tenor violin
I mark out rounding up or down like professor Chris suggests. I mark with a sharp nail and hold another nail on inside of the rule or right at the other end of the measuring lines this helps me to...
You can also get buzzing if the string is sitting or pivoting on the back side of the nut. Which will also affect the intonation of the instrument.
I’m based in Ireland. I get Der Jung tuners from their Europe dealer:Magic Guitar Parts based in Germany. Der Jung is likely to have a dealer in North America.
The pick guard is a bit different to mine. Nice guitar.
When I received the carbon tenor I returned my 23” Harley Benton tenor to CGDA and it seemed fine with the regular D’Addario tenor guitar strings, but I rarely play it. Maybe I should try it with a...
These are my go-to instruments. Both GDAE 211385 The tenor guitar is all carbon fiber. I believe that you could make a cracking CGDA tenor guitar with fan-frets. It’s just a matter of getting the...
I have a 1918 (Vega) 17 fret (short scale) tenor banjo. My understanding is that all tenor banjos at that time were 17 frets. I also have a 1927 (B&D) 19 fret 23” scale tenor banjo. My understanding...
The optimum position for the perpendicular fret likely changes person to person. One thing is for sure is that it changes depending upon what style you are playing. If I’m playing Irish traditional...
Here’s the first of a batch of fan-fret tenor banjos as promised. The angle of the nut is almost square. It actually becomes square at the 3rd fret. As Explorer has explained above fan-frets aren’t a...
I’ve put some thought into what you’ve said. In the next batch of fanned frets that l make I will have two with the nut in the ‘square’ position & an angled bridge. This should facilitate those...
I’m not an expert by any means. All the instruments that I’ve made in the last 3 years have had fan frets. There’s a batch of 8 fan fretted banjos coming through the workshop now. What I can say for...
Thank you Barry for this post I received my copy of ‘A Thousand Mornings Of Music’ today. I’m looking forward to reading it over the Christmas break.
I think for left arm reach it’s all about discipline, keeping the left arm tucked well under the fiddle. Lots of trad players seem to lack some of those points & still play great music but I still...
I don’t think that I have any different a technique than usual. I obviously play Irish trad on it with a strong trad style. I took lessons from a well respected fiddle teacher from a Gaelic speaking...
I’d like to echo mxr’s advice there are some good workshops in China, & also in Eastern Europe. I have bought some nice, good value fiddles from the yita music store. They have on line auction store...
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I use a baroque style cello bow.
There was a long history of trial & error plus thousands of euro to get a working tenor violin. I ended up getting this one off 18” built to viola proportions. It has a 405mm stop & uses standard...
I have even angled the bridge on my tenor violin to enrich the tone on its bottom ‘G’ string. I suppose that makes it a multi-scale instrument even though it is only by about a 10mm differential....
Yes I can understand how that can happen. It is important to get the angle of the frets right to match the ergonomics of the way the player's wrist moves up & down the fretboard. This is particularly...
204053 I’m trying to get the tenor guitar photo onto the thread but it doesn’t seem to want to work.