Tenor guitar vintage4/25/2023 If you then shorten the scale by about 5 frets you will get this tenor guitar (yes it’s shorter than it looks). However if you take the four higher strings you will get what is called tenor baritone guitar. If you take the four lower strings of standard guitar tuning you’ll get a bass guitar. They do have a bass guitar also but this is a tenor guitar that is in a way the opposite of the bass guitar. I’d love a 1930’s Martin tenor, or custom archtop, but for less than the price I charge for a day of studio work, I got an amazing instrument.Įdit for shameless folk band plug Justmat: The viaten is amazing bang for buck - I played a few different makes before choosing a “cheap” brand, and this just sings. I definitely recommend open tuning for the instrument as it just sings. It gives a great open sound, very mellow, very full, but quite different to a parlour guitar or folk shaped guitar. I tune mine GDAD, which is an octave lower than a mandolin (Which I also play a bit of in the folk band), but with a D on the highest pitched string. I also play bass for some singer-songwriters, and this adds a nice extra dimension to songs that don’t need the low end. Which I bloody love! I play double bass in a folk band, but we often get random tiny gigs (aboard old ships, in tiny folk clubs, in dylan thomas’ old living room)… And for that it’s perfect.
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