Re: Royall Triolian '29 Tenor Long Scale guitar - review
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echo chamber
Thank you everybody, especially Bertram Henze, for the inputs on a tenor resonator guitar.
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P.S. If you want to hear sound samples, try Bertram's YouTube channel, OctaveObsessions, the videos less than two years old. He plays in GDAE, I play in DGBE and related open tunings, but you will get a good feel. He is a much better player than I, and his vids are beautiful.
Thanks for pushing me on stage , in front of those who say it can't be done. I'm glad it worked out for you.
I had my own doubts about the scale length, after ordering and before arrival, but then realized this was basically what I had done before: I had once modified an electric ultra-light traveler guitar by spreading 4 strings over the fretboard space of 6 to make a quiet practise instrument for my OM, and it worked at the time.
The abovementioned video is the one below, you can see the applied violin fingering from 2:56 - there is a lot of hand movement, but that's what cello players do all the time, after all. The biggest challenge in this story was, in fact, the tracking information provided (or rather withheld) by USPS...
As for the correct naming of the instrument, I really don't care - in ITM, there's lots of instruments of the CBOM class whose naming is blurred at best, and most players in our sessions rather play their instruments than call them names.
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