New Guitar
Posted on July 12, 2005, under music.
My latest Guitar arrived today. It’s a tenor guitar (four string) tuned in 5ths. It’s all-solid, with rosewood back, sides and fretboard. That and the maple top on it give it a rich full tone, it really rings like a bell.
It arrived in the “standard” CGDA tuning, which I really don’t like, so straight on with some new nickel strings (I prefer the tone nickel-wound strings give, even when not using a magento pickup) and lowered by a fourth to give GDAE and it was sounding much better. Right now it’s tuned ADAD, and that’s proving useful also.
For anyone looking for tenor guitar gauges with Google, I used; .40w, .30w, .20w and .12, my scale length is 552mm. I’ll write a much better entry about the guitar, where I got it from, as well as some tenor guitar history in the next few days.
3 Replies to "New Guitar"
jonathan richards on July 2, 2006
Hey I have a huge crush on tenor guitars and i desperately want one.. is it at all possilbe to get these in ireland? i am near dublin.. maybe there??
SteveP21 on December 14, 2005
Hey, that sounds great – where did you get your tenor guitar – Gold Tone or Larki in the Morning? You might like to check out this site:
http://www.tenorguitar.com
You’lll find it has lots of great information about tenor guitars.
Cheers,
Steve