From: Frank Nordberg wrote: > I bought what I thought was a standard tenor banjo tears ago to play in > a dixieland band. Tuning it to standard tenor banjo tuning (C, G, D A) > turned out to be a *very* bad idea, however. I still haven't figured out > if it's supposed to be a plectrum banjo or and Irish tenor, though. So > how do I find out?
You will probably get better answers but I would suggest scale length and frets are the clue with the tenor running from somewhere round about 20" for a short scale 17 fret job to maybe 23" for a 19 fretter compared to, I think around 26/27" for a 5 string or plecturm. Tuning, are you sure you had strings suited to the tuning you tried? Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
