Jon Freeman wrote: > > 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.
Thanks Jon. Mine has 20 frets and a little less han 23" scale length and sounds really nice in "octave-mandolin tuning". It solved another "problem" I've had recently too, btw. I never could decide whether I preferred playing Gilderoy on the mandolin or on the guitar... One more question: Would you consider the Irish and The New Orleans tenor banjos as two different instruments? > > Tuning, are you sure you had strings suited to the tuning you tried? The only type of four-string set I've ever seen in a Norwegian music store, is D'Addario's set for New Orleans-tuning, and it definitely doesn't work tuned that high on a 23" scale instrument. A friend of mine who is the Norwegian distributor of GHS and a couple of other string brands, have promised me he can get strings for any stringed instrument that exists, though, so I guess I can sort this out now that I know what to ask for. Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
