Well that is great, Welcome to tenor guitar!!! I play mainly Irish fiddle tunes, a little blues now and again, and sometimes dip into a pop tune. Versatile instruments. For a long time I played in...
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Well that is great, Welcome to tenor guitar!!! I play mainly Irish fiddle tunes, a little blues now and again, and sometimes dip into a pop tune. Versatile instruments. For a long time I played in...
Excercise the pinky finger!
I think you are right about that.:)
A sound sample of the Tenor lute
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I see one on...
Dave,
That would be an interesting build. The Lyon and Healy is quite different than the Gibson. 12 fret vs 14 fret, flat top vs arch top, round hole vs f-hole. Quite different sounds I should...
I am filled with lust for a Fletcher Tenor!! If you spring for one, please share!
I had one of their solid spruce tenors. Nice little instruments, I gave it to a friend who wanted to learn, he still has it and it is going strong after many years. I have a KALA 8 string bari uke on...
How does the total string tension of the old strings compare to the new setup? I have found it can take a top a little bit of time to adjust to a different total tension.
The Pono that I play is like a size 5. 12 frets to the body, 21.5" scale length. The workmanship and build quilty of the UL4-20 model is outstanding. Middle instrument hanging.
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I play on instruments with 21.5" and 20.125". but they are tuned GDAE or DGBE. I am used to the shorter scale length and they work well in 5ths tuning.
Beautiful Work!! Love the oval sound hole rosette. Not easy that. The middle instrument is also particularly nice and the slotted headstock, I like that very much. All above my abilities for now....
Dave,
I had the bending forms, etc. for this shape and decided to go with it rather than drafting out a Papoose shaped body and building the forms. I am sure it probably influences the sound and...
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A little tenor guitar cloned after the Tacoma Papoose. Sports a 20 inch scale and tuned GDAE. .014; .024; .034; .049 strings make her ring. Build used all of the design characteristics of...
I also used the Hal Leonard Tenor Guitar Method book. however I used it in GDAE tuning by figuring out the key changes. Mostly I pick fiddle tunes and single note melodies, some chord melody.
Great, stay with it!! With regards to the truss rod, handy to have one. To adjust you might want to get a set of feeler gauges. If you press a string down on the 1st and 12th fret you might want to...
I play bari uke and tenor in DGBe tuning. I enjoy a slightly wider neck as well. I think you would be happy with a Kala given what you have explained. I have restrung several bari ukes with steel,...
It's a fun project. I have done instrument tops in red spruce, western red cedar, red wood, koa, and yellow cedar, but never with maple. Red maple is somewhat similar to koa, I thought, only without...
When stacking firewood last summer, I noticed some red maple with exceptional curl on a few chunks. They had not checked so I painted the ends to prevent checking and set them aside in the shop to...
Picked up the LP model. Good body wood, nice neck. Fit was very good. I will likely replace some of the components over time as they are all low end and put on better tuning machines. It is a fun...
Huck,
They do seem to be a different string design than the KF110 Thomastik-Infeld, but a very interesting design indeed.
Thank you, I wonder what the tensions are on those? They seem like they...
Fox,
The string tension calculator that I use requires a value called the Unit Weight which I get from a D'Addario technical catalog. Since I don't have the unit weights for Thomastick-Infeld...
Jim,
I have looked at all of the John Pearse strings and don't think they are the same. They don't seem to be flat wound nickel on mild steel cores., Unless of course I have not found the ones you...
John,
The woven steel "rope core" Thomastick-Infeld stings that you refer to do in fact reduce tension by about 1 1/2 lbs per string vs the KF110 strings I use. So total might be in the range of...
More available options in our little Tenor world. Solid top would be nice though. It should punch out some sound with that body. I am not familiar with Cross Lap Bracing??? Is this a form of ladder...
Fox,
You are having the same initial reaction to the .038 wound string for the G that I did. I thought it would be too light, having been conditioned by 80/20 bronze strings on 6 strings. But it...