Hi hope you decide and have a good time with whatever you choose. I have recently aquired two tenor guitars here in the uk one is a Martin Coletti (italian make) very small and the other just has a mother of pearl star in the headstock (russian/chinese???) but is nearly the size of a normal guitar with a long neck.

I tune both in a modal tuning more familiar with bouzoukis (which I also play). This is CGCG (C=1st string) and allows for drones and Irish style folk music al la "Planxty" you play the chords on the bass strings and leave the top two mainly open for effect. I also capo mine up two frets to play in D which is what Irish sessions mainly use.

Enjoy

Steve