CONFESSIONS OF A LUTHIER ...
Small Talk
Alex Bishop reflects on the experience of building his first tenor guitars, and considers whether four strings might even be better than six…
Idon’t think that I’m mistaken when I say that the guitar-slinging popstars I see on television these days seem to prefer a scaled down variety of six-string.Add to that the rise in prominence of the ukulele in the last few years, and it appears that smaller-than-usual guitar shaped instruments are very much in vogue at the moment. And yet I feel that there is one instrument that has been overlooked entirely, even though it was once the mainstay of the popular music scene over 100 years ago: the tenor guitar.