I am curious about this instrument, and have a couple of questions for discussion.
First, I see this as very possibly having what later became the Tenor Lute body. I've had three TL's, and it looks spot on to me. However, none of those have, to my knowledge, a maple back and sides. They are birch. Could this be true, and they later became TL's for the simple reason F holed mandolas, or 10 strings wouldn't have caught on?
Secondly, has anyone ever played this instrument? How would a 10 string sound?? I have toyed with idea of converting a TL to these specs, but, is that a bad idea?
Third; looking at the archive, the tuning Lloyd used was ADGCF. I am not sure I could make sense out of that. Why that tuning, and not a mandolin/mandola tuning?
I have entered some photos of a TL for discussion, but, cannot seem to figure out how to get the real thing from the archives. Can someone help with that?
Thanks!
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