Saw this puppy at a recent vintage guitar show down here in SoCal...
Got all excited, and then was informed they aren't all that coveted?
The thing sounded good to me....
Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
Saw this puppy at a recent vintage guitar show down here in SoCal...
Got all excited, and then was informed they aren't all that coveted?
The thing sounded good to me....
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
did ya get it?
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
Nah...
He wanted 1.3K....
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
What a little sweety!
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
They had one at Gryphon Strings in Palo Alto about a half a year ago that went for about that price. I got there too late to try it, but one of the staff told me it was probably being returned anyway due to 'intonation problems'.
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
Nice koa, anyway...
Allen Hopkins
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Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
That Weissenborn was back at Gryphon Strings today- got a chance to play it and found it really, really weird. The scale length was quite long and it seemed to be tuned something like A D G B (the intervals, at any rate, low to high), which was a new one for me- kind of a plectrum banjo tuning I guess? It was an interesting object, but I can't imagine it as anything but a curiosity in most contemporary musical settings.
http://www.gryphonstrings.com/instpix/31606/31606.php
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
It wouldn't surprise me if Weissenborn made plectrum guitars as well.
Re: Weissenborn Tenor Sighting....
With a 27 inch scale that Gryphon one is a plectrum guitar. Normal tuning would be cgbd (like a 5 string without the fifth).
Yes, maybe not coveted by steel players but they are Weissenborns nonetheless.
Jim
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