Choro on reso tenor guitar

[Michael Wolf]

I wanted to share these findings of "Conjunto Som Brasileiro" on youtube. I think it's great playing and it's very rare to hear the tenor guitar as the soloists instrument. There are several more tunes with Bandolim on their channel.

Numa Seresta

A Ginga Do Mané

VOU VIVENDO

[Brad Weiss]

Great! Danilo Brito has a track or two on his wonderful CD on which he plays tenor. #These videos do a nice job of showing choro rhythms, too- very clear.

[delsbrother]

I love how those Del Vecchios look, but I've always been chicken to buy them off of ebay... <sigh>

Do you think a US-made wood-body resonator would have a similar sound? The metal National tenors I've heard seem too strident for this kind of music.

Pedro Amorim has a great CD out called Violao Tenor that also has some great playing on it. I've seen pictures of him playing a Del Vecchio, but FWIW the pictures in the CD booklet all show a small-bodied wooden non-resonator tenor.

[Michael Wolf]

Hm, I've to say that my metal reso tenor sounds very nice for choro and other things. But they do not sound all the same. The bigger problem I have is that my 58cm scale is really long to play choro tunes. They use much more different notes than the irish tunes that I play on the tenor usually. The Del Vecchios have a shorter scale and they use the CGDA tuning.

Btw.: There are even some players who use the tenor banjo for choro, or at least one:

Choro das Três - Chorinho Brasil

Choro das Três - Aguenta Seu Fulgêncio

[delsbrother]

Marco De Pinna

[Michael Wolf]

And Renato Anesi.

I have his CD "Rosa Dos Tempos" and it's really good. No traditional Choro, but interesting choro-based modern stuff. He plays a lot of stringed instruments on his CD. Tenor, Bandolim, Sixstring Git., Cavaquinho and interestingly the Viola de dez cordas which you don't hear very often.

[Michael Wolf]

Sorry, I put the wrong URL in the link above. Thanks for the hint delsbrother.

Renato Anesi

[delsbrother]

The body of this guitar looks great. But that thing has had some brutal refrets in its life...

Lots of neat pix/links though. Check out the blonde DV-tenor!

[delsbrother]

Here's Pedro Amorim playing the small-bodied tenor I mentioned upthread:

[Al Bergstein]

Yes, had a great experience at the Mandolin Symposium last summer when Danilo Brito walked into a dorm party we had going and picked up a beautiful tenor and just wailed on it for, maybe 30 minutes. Astounding player with an awesome repertoire at his fingers. He seemed to be totally fluent on it. There are a number of older videos I've seen from Brazil that show the tenor being played. Thanks for posting those links!

[Joel Glassman]

Fantastic video
thanks so much!

[Michael Wolf]

Some more choros on reso-tenor by the great Henrique Cazes:

[delsbrother]

What is he saying in the interviews? I can hear smatterings of the words Del Vecchio, Garoto, Bando da Lua, etc. But anyone else know what he's talking about?