![]() Dobro, another company formed by the Dopyera Brothers, as well as National Instruments, also built resonator tenor guitars. National Instruments also made significant numbers of resonator tenor and plectrum guitars between the 1920s and 1940s, some of which were also used by jazz musicians as a second instrument. Tenor guitars were manufactured continuously by Gibson and Martin from the 1920s until the 1970s. On page 61 of Tony Bacon’s The History of the American Guitar is a photograph of a natural-finished 17 Synchromatic tenor with cats-eye soundholes. The dimensions of this guitar are as follows Rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot markers.A Fishman pickup with an endpin jack socket can be fitted to your guitar (see choice options). Vintage Stella H6130 Acoustic Guitar Very Clean w BAG. ![]() 1940s vtg STELLA 4-STRING TENOR GUITAR/HARD CASE for restoration ESTATE FIND. Other tunings are possible, such as "guitar tuning" or "Chicago tuning" DGBE, "Irish" or "octave mandolin" tuning GDAE various "open" tunings, for slide playing and modal tunings. Great deals on Stella Vintage Acoustic Guitars. ![]() The instrument is equally well suited to both rhythm and lead playing. Tenor guitars are usually tuned in fifths (usually CGDA, similar to the tenor banjo or the viola), This tuning is very "open" and it gives the instrument unusual voicing from both open and closed chords. The fifths tuning also makes for easy moveable chord shapes. This Ozark model plays well and has a sweet tone. A much sought after instrument by tenor banjoists and guitar players wanting a different sound .
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