Tenor Guitar Gallery & Sightings

[Jim Garber]

I didn't see this video posted in this thread. You can barely hear the guitar but greta music anyway...

[delsbrother]

That thing is huge! Plectrum, based off an L5? Or bigger?

[GKWilson]

Never get a great look at it, but my guess would be a Gibson TG 50.
They made a few of those with f holes. I've only seen them with dot markers though.
Condon was a banjo player so it probably was a plectrum neck.
Our fellow Cafe'r E Z Marc has a TG 50 w/f holes. Maybe if he reads this he can help us out.
Gary

[Seonachan]

Do you guys know Heather Maloney? She plays tenor guitar on some of her songs. I found a picture of her holding a blueridge tenor quite by accident while scoping out tickets for a different show at the Bull Run restaurant in Shirley, MA. I've since checked out her music and think she is a great songwriter and performer. She has a new album coming out in March.





http://www.heathermaloney.com/

I watched a few of her videos - good stuff!

[Charles E.]

Here is a better photo of Eddie Condon's guitar. He did play Plectrum, looks like maybe an L-12?
Eddie never played a solo, he was strictly rhythm. One of his great talents was managing to assemble great Jazz musicians and get them on stage or into the recording studio at the same time.

[Ed Goist]

Eastwood Warren Ellis Signature Tenor guitar sighting courtesy of Eleanor Whitmore of The Mastersons.

[Mteresko]

Saw this at Players Vintage instruments and had to share it. Awesome guitar!

[kmmando]

[Ed Goist]

Here is Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe on a '59 Martin Tenor (O17T?) with an instrumental cover of Jim Croce's "Time In a Bottle".

From the Larkin Poe Facebook page:
Meet "Little Baby"! A 1959 Martin Tenor guitar that I found at Norman's Rare Guitars out in Los Angeles. Goofy young love calls for a Jim Croce jam. (For the guitar-heads out there: the tenor is tuned in open A).

[fox]

Here is one, any idea on the model?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6HKnM8FFc

[Seonachan]

Looks like an Aria.

[kmmando]

cranking out a few sets on the old National tricone tenor ....

[bruce.b]

Not sure if this one has been posted yet. I like Taarka a lot, particularly this lineup with cello and upright bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stM35peY4mU

[Beanzy]

Here's Maz O'Connor wih her tenor guitar;



and just for her voice (not TG) a lovely song of her's "Derby Day"


and The Grey Selkie of Suleskerry (Ashbury TG in the foreground)

[ambrosepottie]

Bansitar!!! I want one. Left-handed.

[hammer40]

Here is one, any idea on the model?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6HKnM8FFc

Looks to be an Aria AF tenor guitar.

[Dolamon]

I haven't seen (noticed) this one posted here before www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQMRskHg-BYTo my knowledge, this is the first time I've seen Jerry Thomasson in a video and he is solid. But then, so is the rest of the band. (While he's not in the spotlight, his rhythm playing is as good as it gets.) Sorry - I tried posting this as an active video in situ, thanks to all the remarkable directions I've received. ... this is what worked for me.

[fox]

[Chip Stewart]

Is that an 8 string ukele? I recognize the bass and tenor guitar (left and right), and I'm pretty sure the smaller, 4 string instrument is a ukele. I'm confused by the small, 8 string instrument though.

[Charles E.]

Looks like it could be a Tiple. Originally from South America and made, in this country by Martin, Lyon and Healy among others.

[MdJ]

Eddie Peabody - love this pic

i do believe that is a Vega plectrum solid body guitar he is holding - a very similar Vega tenor scale instrument was sold in the bay area a few years back.

Moistly

MdJ

[Charles E.]

It looks like the guitar has six tuners at the head stock, but it is a four string neck, Did he have double courses on two of the strings?

[MdJ]

I found this on his sons website - apparently he invented the banjoline - more famously produced by Rickenbacker.

This is a photo of the first electric banjoline prototype manufactured by the Vega Company circa the mid-1950s. My father and the producers at Dot Records wanted a different sound for the albums he was producing. This instrument was used in the production of six of the thirteen albums he recorded for the Dot label. Again, there are six strings, an octave fourth, a monotone third, and single first and second, along with two magnetic pickups and a vibrato arm.

And another pic of the vega



More info here

http://george-peabody.blogspot.com/2012/01/eddie-peabody-collection.html

Moistly

MdJ

[MdJ]

And here is youtube transfer of a vinyl recording of eddie demonstrating the banjoline.

http://youtu.be/nWYbYBE6LLw

Thanks to Jim Bottroff- very cool.

[fox]