Polychrome: Jim Richter, '33/34 National Triolian Tenor Guitar

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Tune I made up 5 minutes prior to uploading this. Playing around on my vintage National tenor guitar. Have been missing my Kimble octave, so this instrument is filling a much felt void.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• National
• tenor
• guitar
• polychrome
• Triolian
• vintage
• mandolin
• rock
• alternative

[olmmbill]

Very nice. What is the tuning of the strings?

[JimRichter]

@olmmbill : Standard tenor (like a mandola): CGDA. Though I'm playing out of what would be G position on a mandolin, I'm actually playing in C.

[FastEddieMandolin]

Wow, Jim - This is fantastic! Totally off the hook!

If you still have this beauty, please bring it to this year's camp. :-)

[jarmbru]

Jim, you wouldn't happen to know the year and the model on that would you? Nice.

[ukulelezaza]

After getting a Triolian plectrum guitar recently (also green) I just had to come back to this video. These instruments are perfect for rocking like you're doing here. Love it!

[ukulelezaza]

Very nice, wow. I just got a 1931 Triolian small body ukulele yesterday (walnut finish) and it blows me away. Great stuff, I'm going to check out your channel now......

[hhzoukman]

very cool! I love those old National tenors....

[zippyman818]

It seems to resonant well in certain ways and kind of flat on other notes. Are you inadvertently restricting the motion of the back of the instrument?

[JimRichter]

@lazydave67 : I plan on hanging on to it, especially since I don't have the octave. By the way, Dad is this you?

[migasaguiar]

great stuff jim... i love tenor guitars, don't play/own any though... what happenned to the kimble octave?

[chromatonic]

Brilliant!

[MandoMarkinIndy]

Your statement is clear here as in all your videos, there are no limits to the music that can be obtained from odd instruments of old tuned in fifths! My hats off to you...this rocks!