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Subject: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 08 Dec 07 - 06:24 AM For those of you who want to imitate Seth Lakeman or whose tenor banjo is just a little too loud for the local session, Hobgoblin music shops have now added a tenor guitar to their Ashury range. Looks nice and modestly priced. I'm buying mine next week... but not for either reason mentioned above! tenor guitar Hobgoblin have about 8 shops and it's a good guess that each will have at least one in stock - or they do mailorder. If you are in the USA they have a partnership with Stoney End, Red Wing, Minn. but I don't know if/when they will be in stock there. Nick |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: maeve Date: 08 Dec 07 - 07:00 AM It looks good, nickp. What's the sound like? Do you know how it would compare with a Baby Taylor (mahogany)? maeve |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 08 Dec 07 - 07:13 AM I haven't got my hands on one yet. There's no way a guitar at that price will compare with a Taylor (and isn't the Baby 6 string whereas the tenor is 4?). However, I've been very impressed with some of the 6 string Ashborys I've tried recently. And there's a whole range of tuning you can use on them with the right strings, I'll be using GDAE (octave of mandolin/violin) but I guess people will also use the highest 4 of a guitar DGBE etc or 'proper' tenor CGDA Nick |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Lowden Jameswright Date: 08 Dec 07 - 07:38 AM The Ashbury guitars are superb value, and surprisingly loud - so should be a good buy. So what does Seth Lakeman play? |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 08 Dec 07 - 09:23 AM A Martin - although I don't know the model. |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: GUEST,Otis Date: 08 Dec 07 - 11:04 AM - Not that im interested particulary, but when looking for handmade guitars a few months back, i found this website of this small maker in the west country I think, and he made alot of Seth Lakemans tenor guitars. Seth Lakeman is a bore though. hehe |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Jim Lad Date: 08 Dec 07 - 03:27 PM nickp: Thanks for that link. Wish I'd known about it before my Scotland trip. Tenor Guitar is my chief instrument. DGBE At that price, it's worth the risk. Cheers! Jim GUEST,Otis: Your namesake in Cape Breton (Otis Thomas) is probably the finest source for tenor guitars. I'd be an old man before he reached my name on the waiting list though. |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Stringsinger Date: 08 Dec 07 - 03:32 PM Here's a problem. Some instruments are suited for specific tunings. DGBE may sound good on one tenor and not on another for example. It would seem that the CGDA would require a lighter guage string and thinner construction to keep the overtones down. Whereas DGBE or GDAE would require more heft for projection. Frank |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Sttaw Legend Date: 08 Dec 07 - 03:48 PM Does anyone know where I could get my hands on a electro acoustic tenor guitar please? |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Dave Hanson Date: 09 Dec 07 - 03:06 AM Tenor banjo and mandolin ace Tom Napper plays a Baby Taylor with 2 strings removed as a tenor guitar. eric |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Rasener Date: 09 Dec 07 - 04:23 AM Have you tried Hull Sttaw Legend? :-) |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 09 Dec 07 - 01:41 PM Alternative options for strings here: oakwood instruments string gauges I am expecting to change strings. It's a 58cm scale length so for GDAE I shall probably try 40 30 20 11. Can't decide on a wound or plain A (20). Having said that it will depend on what the instrument comes with and how it feels. Nick |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Jim Lad Date: 10 Dec 07 - 01:53 AM Nick P: Not trying to rain on your parade but if you're going to play it in fifths then I would have to suggest CGDA for a decent sound. You can order ball end, Tenor Guitar strings from most of the major brand names. |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 10 Dec 07 - 03:06 AM HI Jim, this is true but as a mandolin player who has trouble transposing....! And fortunately a local music shop who sell individual strings. I'll report back once I've got it. Nick |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 10 Dec 07 - 02:23 PM If you want to hear what a tenor guitar sounds like on a recording, find an early Kingston Trio album and take a listen. Nick Reynolds played a Martin tenor guitar, which looked almost like an oversized ukelele, but with steel strings and a richer tone. I suspect he learned to play on a uke when his father, a Navy Captain, was stationed in Hawaii. It gave the group a unique sound. |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 10 Dec 07 - 03:44 PM And there's the Delmore Brothers and (I think) the Louvin Brothers... If you play it tuned as the high 4 strings of a guitar then you can do all sorts. |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: Bobert Date: 10 Dec 07 - 08:43 PM The Martin tenor I believe is an OO-17, nickp... I've owned n' played tenor geetars going back into the 60's... I've had the spectrum (rhymes with pletum...) of the little sumabichs... Yeah, I've had the 00-17 Martin, I've had a 30's Gibson, Harmony arch tops, a Gibson archie but never had one as nice as the one I own now which is a mid 30"s Dobro built resonator tenor... Now, with that said... A few years back I was in Fredricksburg, Va. at "Picker Supply" and Bran Dillard, the owner, who loves to tempt me brought out canvas bag and inside was a hardsheel case and inside it was a perfect 30's National S-type tricone tenor... I eman it was the purdiest geeter I ever saw and he let me play it there in the middle of his geetra shop... Lotta folks gathered 'round and wondered at the sound of this very unusal geeter... I was purdy amazed myself... "Okay, Bran, how much", I asked... "Thirt five hundred", he said... Well $3500 is a bunch of money so I figured that it was way outta reach for this ol' hillbilly... Then later that night it started botherin' me and it bothered me fir the next couple weeks... I couldn't get that geeter outta my head... So I go to the P-Vine and asks her if we could go get a loan fir it and she, like women will do when they know they got you made me promise to do this and that for the reat of our lives, which I gladly agreed to do so I called up Bran and he said... ..."Sorry, Bob, we sold it..." Sniff... Well, nevermind... I love my Dobro reso tenor... I even recorded one song on my CD with it... Bobert |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 11 Dec 07 - 04:14 AM Hi Bobert, now there's a story! Start saving, it may come back on the market! Nick |
Subject: RE: UK - new tenor guitars From: nickp Date: 14 Dec 07 - 03:55 AM Well, I now have mine and am delighted with it. I had the chance to compare 4 and was hard pushed to decide although I finally made my decision based purely on the colour and grain of the front. They all sounded excellent. It comes tuned/strung for tenor so CGDA but I've picked up strings to replace it for octave GDAE. Highly recommended. Nick |
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