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The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by <a href="/wiki/Gibson_(guitar_company)" title="Gibson (guitar company)">Gibson</a> and <a href="/wiki/C._F._Martin_%26_Company" title="C. F. Martin & Company">C.F. Martin</a> so that players of the four-string <a href="/wiki/Tenor_banjo" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenor banjo">tenor banjo</a> could double on guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">Tenor guitar</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg/130px-Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg/195px-Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg/260px-Item-tenor-guitar-503_lg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="454" data-file-height="1100"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Modern tenor guitar manufactured <br>by the Gold Tone Music Group <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #b0c4de"><a href="/wiki/String_instrument" title="String instrument">String instrument</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left">Four-string guitar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification" title="Musical instrument classification">Classification</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left"><span></span> <a href="/wiki/String_instrument" title="String instrument">String instrument</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pizzicato" title="Pizzicato">plucked</a>, stringed instrument usually played with a <a href="/wiki/Guitar_pick" title="Guitar pick">plectrum</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Hornbostel%E2%80%93Sachs" title="Hornbostel–Sachs">Hornbostel–Sachs classification</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left">321.322-4<br>(Composite <a href="/wiki/Chordophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Chordophone">chordophone</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Developed</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1927</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #b0c4de"><a href="/wiki/Musical_instrument" title="Musical instrument">Related instruments</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span></span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandola" title="Mandola">mandola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandolin" title="Mandolin">mandolin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenor_banjo" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenor banjo">tenor banjo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukulele" title="Ukulele">ukulele</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Construction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Construction</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#History_and_development"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">History and development</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Tuning"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Tuning</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Plectrum_guitar"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Plectrum guitar</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Use_and_performers"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Use and performers</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Current_use"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Current use</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Construction">Construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Construction" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>Tenor guitars are four-stringed instruments normally made in the shape of a guitar, or sometimes with a <a href="/wiki/Lute" title="Lute">lute</a>-like pear shaped body or, more rarely, with a round banjo-like wooden body. They can be acoustic, electric or both and they can come in the form of flat top or <a href="/wiki/Archtop_guitar" title="Archtop guitar">archtop</a> wood-bodied, metal-bodied resonator, or solid-bodied instruments. Tenor guitars normally have a <a href="/wiki/Scale_length_(string_instruments)" title="Scale length (string instruments)">scale length</a> similar to that of the <a href="/wiki/Tenor_banjo" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenor banjo">tenor banjo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Octave_mandolin" title="Octave mandolin">octave mandolin</a> of between 21 and 23 inches (53 and 58 cm). </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="History_and_development">History and development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History and development" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg/110px-Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="282" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="252" data-file-height="645"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 110px;height: 282px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg/110px-Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg" data-width="110" data-height="282" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg/165px-Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg/220px-Dobro_style37_tenor_guitar.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>1928 <a href="/wiki/Dobro" title="Dobro">Dobro</a>–style 37 tenor guitar</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest origins of the tenor guitar are not clear, but it seems unlikely that a true four-stringed guitar-shaped tenor guitar appeared before the late 1920s. Gibson built the tenor lute TL-4 in 1924, which had a lute-like pear-shaped body, four strings and a tenor banjo neck. It is possible that similar instruments were made by other makers such as Lyon and Healy and banjo makers, such as Bacon. In the same period, banjo makers, such as Paramount, built transitional round banjo-like wood-bodied instruments with four strings and tenor banjo necks called tenor harps. From 1927 onwards, the very first true wood-bodied acoustic tenor guitars appeared as production instruments made by both Gibson and Martin. </p><p>Almost all the major guitar makers, including <a href="/wiki/Epiphone" title="Epiphone">Epiphone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kay_Musical_Instrument_Company" title="Kay Musical Instrument Company">Kay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gretsch" title="Gretsch">Gretsch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guild_Guitar_Company" title="Guild Guitar Company">Guild</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Reso-Phonic_Guitars" title="National Reso-Phonic Guitars">National Reso-Phonic</a>, have manufactured tenor (and plectrum) guitars as production instruments at various times. Budget tenor guitars by makers such as <a href="/wiki/Harmony_Company" title="Harmony Company">Harmony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Regal_Musical_Instrument_Company" title="Regal Musical Instrument Company">Regal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stella_(guitar)" title="Stella (guitar)">Stella</a>, were produced in large numbers in the 1950s and 1960s. National, formed by the Dopyera Brothers, also made significant numbers of resonator tenor and plectrum guitars between the 1920s and 1940s. <a href="/wiki/Dobro" title="Dobro">Dobro</a>, another company associated with the Dopyera Brothers, as well as National, also built various resonator tenor guitar models. </p><p>In 1934, Gibson introduced an acoustic archtop tenor guitar, the TG-50, based on the acoustic archtop six-string model, the L-50, with its production run lasting until 1958. In 1936 Gibson introduced the world's first commercially successful electric Spanish-style guitar, the ES-150. In early 1937 Gibson also began shipping two other versions of the ES-150: a tenor guitar (the EST-150, with four strings and a 23" scale, renamed the ETG-150 in 1940) and a plectrum version (the EPG-150, with a 27" scale). The ETG-150, was in continuous production until 1972. </p><p>In the mid-1950s electric <a href="/wiki/Solid_body" title="Solid body">solid-body</a> tenor guitar models began to appear from companies such as Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, and Epiphone. These were mostly produced as one-off custom instruments but, for a short time in 1955, Gretsch manufactured an electric solid-bodied tenor guitar, the Gretsch 6127 DuoJet. Renewed interest in the tenor guitar led to the introduction of new solid-body electric models in the early 21st century, with companies such as <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender</a> beginning production of a tenor version of their <a href="/wiki/Fender_Telecaster" title="Fender Telecaster">Telecaster</a> model.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Tuning">Tuning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tuning" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>Tenor guitars are normally tuned in fifths, <b>C</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>G</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>D</b><sub>4</sub>−<b>A</b><sub>4</sub>, using the same tuning as the <a href="/wiki/Banjo#Four-string_banjos" title="Banjo">tenor banjo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mandola" title="Mandola">mandola</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Viola" title="Viola">viola</a>. Also common are tuning one octave below standard violin tuning, <b>G</b><sub>2</sub>−<b>D</b><sub>3</sub><b>−A</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>E</b><sub>4</sub>, which is typical of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_traditional_music#Banjo" title="Irish traditional music">tenor banjo in Irish folk music</a> or "octave mandolin," and the so-called "Chicago tuning", <b>D</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>G</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>B</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>E</b><sub>4</sub>, the same as the top four strings of a standard guitar, or the "baritone <a href="/wiki/Ukulele" title="Ukulele">ukulele</a>," a slightly smaller instrument usually strung with nylon strings. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Plectrum_guitar">Plectrum guitar</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Plectrum guitar" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg/200px-1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="283" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="433" data-file-height="612"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 200px;height: 283px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg/200px-1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg" data-width="200" data-height="283" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg/300px-1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg/400px-1928_National_Style_O_plectrum_guitar.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>1928 <a href="/wiki/National_String_Instrument_Corporation" title="National String Instrument Corporation">National</a>-style "plectrum guitar"</figcaption></figure> <p>The "plectrum guitar" is a four-stringed guitar with a scale length of 26 to 27 inches (66 to 69 cm) and tunings usually based on the <a href="/wiki/Banjo#Four-string_banjos" title="Banjo">plectrum banjo</a>, <b>C</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>G</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>B</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>D</b><sub>4</sub> or <b>D</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>G</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>B</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>D</b><sub>4</sub>. They are also commonly tuned like a <a href="/wiki/Mandocello" title="Mandocello">mandocello</a>, <b>C</b><sub>2</sub>−<b>G</b><sub>2</sub>−<b>D</b><sub>3</sub>−<b>A</b><sub>3</sub>, one octave down from the tenor guitar, much as the relationship between a viola and cello. Plectrum guitars have not been made in as large numbers as tenor guitars and are rarer. One of the best known plectrum guitarists from the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_Age" title="Jazz Age">Jazz Age</a> was <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Condon" title="Eddie Condon">Eddie Condon</a>, who started out on <a href="/wiki/Banjo" title="Banjo">banjo</a> in the 1920s and then switched to a Gibson L7 plectrum guitar in the 1930s. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Use_and_performers">Use and performers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Use and performers" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <p>Tenor guitars initially came to significant commercial prominence in the late 1920s and early 1930s as tenor banjos were slowly being replaced by six-string guitars in jazz bands and dance orchestras. Tenor banjo players could double on tenor guitars to get a guitar sound without having to learn the six-string guitar. Two of the McKendrick brothers, both named Mike – "Big" Mike and "Little" Mike – doubled on tenor banjo and tenor guitar in jazz bands dating from the 1920s. "Big" Mike McKendrick both managed and played with <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>'s bands while "Little" Mike McKendrick played with various bands, including <a href="/wiki/Tony_Parenti" title="Tony Parenti">Tony Parenti</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg/220px-1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="270" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="488" data-file-height="600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 270px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg/220px-1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="270" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg/330px-1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg/440px-1932_Martin_0-18_T_Sunburst_Tenor_Guitar.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>1932 <a href="/wiki/C._F._Martin_%26_Company" title="C. F. Martin & Company">C.F. Martin</a> 0-18 T sunburst</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Delmore_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Delmore Brothers">Delmore Brothers</a> were a very influential pioneering country music duo from the early 1930s to the late 1940s that featured the tenor guitar. The Delmore Brothers were one of the original country vocal harmonizing sibling acts that established the mold for later similar acts, such as the <a href="/wiki/Louvin_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Louvin Brothers">Louvin Brothers</a>, and even later, <a href="/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers" title="The Everly Brothers">The Everly Brothers</a>. The younger of the Delmore brothers, <a href="/wiki/Rabon_Delmore" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabon Delmore">Rabon</a>, played the tenor guitar as an accompaniment to his older brother, <a href="/wiki/Alton_Delmore" class="mw-redirect" title="Alton Delmore">Alton</a>'s, six-string guitar. Rabon favored the Martin 0-18T tenor guitar and the Louvin Brothers later recorded a tribute album to the Delmores that featured Rabon's Martin 0-18T tenor played by mandolinist Ira Louvin, but tuned as the four treble guitar strings. Another 1930s band that featured the tenor guitar was the <a href="/wiki/Hoosier_Hotshots" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoosier Hotshots">Hoosier Hotshots</a>, commonly considered the creators of mid-western rural jazz. Their leader, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ken_Trietsch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ken Trietsch (page does not exist)">Ken Trietsch</a>, played the tenor guitar, as well as doubling on the <a href="/wiki/Tuba" title="Tuba">tuba</a>. </p><p>In the early 1930s <a href="/wiki/The_Selmer_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Selmer Company">Selmer Guitars</a> in Paris manufactured four-string guitars based on guitar designs by the Italian luthier <a href="/wiki/Mario_Maccaferri" title="Mario Maccaferri">Mario Maccaferri</a> that they marketed to banjo players for use as a second instrument. The two main four-string Selmer models were a regular tenor guitar with a smaller body and a 23 inch scale length for standard <b>CGDA</b> tuning, and the Eddie Freeman Special, with a larger body and a longer 25.5-inch scale length, using a <a href="/wiki/Reentrant_tuning" title="Reentrant tuning">reentrant</a> tuning for the A string which was designed by English tenor banjoist <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Freeman_(musician)" title="Eddie Freeman (musician)">Eddie Freeman</a> to have a better six-string guitar sonority for rhythm guitar work than the normal tenor guitar with its high A string while till using the same cord shaped familiar to tenor banjoists. Selmer heavily promoted the guitar through <i><a href="/wiki/Melody_Maker" title="Melody Maker">Melody Maker</a></i> and Eddie Freeman even wrote a special tune for it called "In All Sincerity". However, the guitar was not commercially successful in the 1930s, and many were subsequently converted to much more valuable six-string models. Originals of the Eddie Freeman Special are now very rare and are consequently highly valuable. </p><p>As the six-string guitar eventually became more popular in bands in the 1930s and 1940s, tenor guitars became less frequently played, although some tenor guitar models had been made in very large numbers throughout this period and are now still common. </p><p>Tenor guitars came to prominence again in the 1950s and 1960s amid the <a href="/wiki/Dixieland" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixieland">Dixieland</a> jazz revival and the folk music boom. At this time, they were made by makers such as Epiphone, Gibson, Guild, and Gretsch as archtop acoustics and electrics, as well as a range of flat top models by Martin. A Martin 0-18T flattop acoustic tenor guitar was played in the late 1950s by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Reynolds" title="Nick Reynolds">Nick Reynolds</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio" title="The Kingston Trio">The Kingston Trio</a>. During this period electric tenor guitars were advertised as "lead guitars", although the rationale for this is not now clear. </p><p>A major player of the electric tenor as a lead guitarist in the <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> styles from the 1940s to the 1970s was the jazz guitarist <a href="/wiki/Tiny_Grimes" title="Tiny Grimes">Tiny Grimes</a>, who recorded with <a href="/wiki/Cats_and_the_Fiddle" title="Cats and the Fiddle">Cats and the Fiddle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Art_Tatum" title="Art Tatum">Art Tatum</a>, and others. Grimes used <b>DGBE</b> "Chicago" tuning on his tenor guitars, rather than traditional <b>CGDA</b> tuning. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_use">Current use</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Tenor_guitar&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Current use" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg/120px-Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="248" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="204" data-file-height="422"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 248px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg/120px-Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg" data-width="120" data-height="248" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg/180px-Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Lyon%26HealeyTenorGuitarReplica.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>Modern replica of a 1930s <a href="/wiki/Lyon_%26_Healy" title="Lyon & Healy">Lyon & Healy</a> tenor guitar. Background tiles are 20 cm square</figcaption></figure> <p>Since 2001, there has been an increased interest in the tenor guitar, as evidenced by an increasing number of manufacturers, such as <a href="/wiki/Eastwood_Guitars" title="Eastwood Guitars">Eastwood Guitars</a>, Blueridge, Gold Tone, Artist Guitars, Canora, Thomann, Harley Benton, and <a href="/wiki/Ibanez" title="Ibanez">Ibanez</a>, offering tenor guitar models, and a greater number of specialist luthiers now building custom tenor guitar models or offering to modify existing instruments into tenor guitars. </p><p>Contemporary players of the tenor guitar include <a href="/wiki/Neko_Case" title="Neko Case">Neko Case</a>, <a href="/wiki/Josh_Rouse" title="Josh Rouse">Josh Rouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joel_Plaskett" title="Joel Plaskett">Joel Plaskett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Gnade" title="Adam Gnade">Adam Gnade</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ani_DiFranco" title="Ani DiFranco">Ani DiFranco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Rodriguez" title="Carrie Rodriguez">Carrie Rodriguez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Craven" title="Joe Craven">Joe Craven</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dhani_Harrison" title="Dhani Harrison">Dhani Harrison</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jason_Molina" title="Jason Molina">Jason Molina</a> played a tenor guitar for much of his early work as <a href="/wiki/Songs:_Ohia" class="mw-redirect" title="Songs: Ohia">Songs: Ohia</a>. The instrument is often used by musicians looking to replace or augment sounds produced by more conventional instruments. <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Costello" title="Elvis Costello">Elvis Costello</a> features a tenor guitar on the title track of his 2004 release <i><a href="/wiki/The_Delivery_Man_(album)" title="The Delivery Man (album)">Delivery Man</a></i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wes_Borland" title="Wes Borland">Wes Borland</a>, the guitarist for <a href="/wiki/Nu_metal" title="Nu metal">nu metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Limp_Bizkit" title="Limp Bizkit">Limp Bizkit</a> plays a low-tuned (<b>F</b><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1.2em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">♯</sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">1</sub></span></span>−<b>F</b><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1.2em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">♯</sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">2</sub></span></span>−<b>B</b><sub>2</sub>−<b>E</b><sub>3</sub>) four-string guitar on the songs <a href="/wiki/Nookie_(Limp_Bizkit_song)" title="Nookie (Limp Bizkit song)">"Nookie"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chocolate_Starfish_and_the_Hot_Dog_Flavored_Water" title="Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water">"The One"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chocolate_Starfish_and_the_Hot_Dog_Flavored_Water" title="Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water">"Full Nelson"</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Three_Dollar_Bill,_Yall%24" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Dollar Bill, Yall$">"Stalemate"</a> using a 4-string "Cremona" tenor guitar made by Master guitars.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2022, he commissioned PRS Guitars to make a custom four-string guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prominent U.K. users of the tenor guitar include the Lakeman brothers, <a href="/wiki/Seth_Lakeman" title="Seth Lakeman">Seth Lakeman</a> and Sean Lakeman, and <a href="/wiki/John_McCusker" title="John McCusker">John McCusker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ian_Carr_(guitarist)" title="Ian Carr (guitarist)">Ian Carr</a>, who both play with the <a href="/wiki/Kate_Rusby" title="Kate Rusby">Kate Rusby</a> Band. Irish folk artist <a href="/wiki/Yawning_Chasm" title="Yawning Chasm">Yawning Chasm</a> primarily uses the tenor guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2010, Astoria, Oregon, has hosted an annual Tenor Guitar Gathering, on the basis of which some call it the "unofficial Tenor Guitar Capital of the World."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Warren_Ellis_(musician)" title="Warren Ellis (musician)">Warren Ellis</a> plays a tenor guitar on the <a href="/wiki/Nick_Cave_and_the_Bad_Seeds" title="Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds">Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds</a> album <i><a href="/wiki/Push_the_Sky_Away" title="Push the Sky Away">Push the Sky Away</a></i>, and has custom tenor guitars built by <a href="/wiki/Eastwood_Guitars" title="Eastwood Guitars">Eastwood Guitars</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a shape modeled after a <a href="/wiki/Fender_Mustang" title="Fender Mustang">Fender Mustang</a> but with a wider than usual neck to accommodate his fingerstyle playing.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eastwood currently offers several models of electric tenor guitar including the aforementioned Warren Ellis signature model, the semi-hollow Classic 4 Tenor,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Tenorcaster.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div 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