I love my new tenor guitar from Aaron. The sound is much louder than I imagined and I am heard across the room in a jam session which surprised me and others. With a shoulder replacement I am able to reach across the lower bout which I cannot do with my Martin and Harmony tenors. I am a bass player who, during medical difficulties, was replaced in jams and a band. Totally bereft, I got Aaron to build me a tenor guitar and I am so happy he helped me find a way to enjoy music again! Thanks, Aaron. Love the vintage look and celebration of the Regal heritage.
That Baritone is so rich and warm. Oh my ! The Tenor sound seems to jump off the body. I really like what you have done with the Tenor’s neck at the nut. The frets seem closer together than other Tenors I’ve seen which would make chording easier for those with smaller hands. Two amazing instruments, well done.
Thanks Aaron, what is similar to both, is they are stunning to look at and sound sublime. Am sure people will find their instrument, that said I believe you can’t have too many. But my wife disagrees 😄. She always comes round in the end though.
I wish you had said that the _traditional_ tuning of the tenor guitar is all fifths. Not that it's bad or wrong to tune it another way, of course, but this historical fact may help to prevent confusion between the two instruments.
Thanks for explaining. I got a baritone uke last year and really love it. Knew there was a such thing as a tenor guitar with only 4 strings, but didn't know how it was different from the baritone uke.
Great explanation , thank you. Your instruments sound awesome!! I lucked into a Steve Carr tenor guitar last year and love it, but sure would like to have a nice baritone uke....hmmmm.....
Yep, this clears up a lot of my questions. One thing you touched on that I’ve always wondered about the tenor guitar is the narrow nut. You say that steel strings and the taper of the fretboard lend themselves to the 1 5/16 spacing on the nut. Why is that?
I just think it feels comfortable for steel strings. Many old ones are far slimmer. It is just what was traditional for tenor banjos growing out of the mandolin and violin world in the early 1900’s.
I would say it does kinda make it worse actually lol, I would have assumed baritone ukes and tenor guitars were more different from each other prior to the video and looking up how a baritone uke was tuned. Was kinda surprised it doesn't usually have reentrant tuning like the smaller ukes, as that's kinda the one thing that I associate fairly strongly with ukes, more than the strings (as guitars can also have nylon strings) Does the bracing you mention effect the sound and if so in what way, or is it more a historical thing?
It's just names. Guitar, bass, ukelele variants, tenor could just be named "string instrument" and just differ in string count and size. The tunings are changeable anyway, many who play soprano/tenor etc uke use a low G.
I`d say it totally depends on the strings you use.Tenor guitars can take MANY different tunings,but bear in mind the tension might overstress the construction,or you get floppy strings with too low tension.I tuned my Tenor in B/Fis/b/fis using the middle 4 of a silk&steel set;a steel core set would definitely be too much tension,though my cheap Ashbury tenor is quite robust.And: You might have to make new nut and saddle for different gauges.
