Tenor Guitar: The 'Mucky' Shaskeen Reel!

Dick Glasgow playing The Shaskeen Reelon his Fletcher Tenortone Tenor Guitar.

Dick Glasgow:
http://dickglasgow.blogspot.com/

The Shaskeen Reel @ The Session:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/615

This is a Fletcher Tenortone Tenor Guitar: http://fletcherinstruments.com/

It only arrived yesterday evening, so of course, I just had to post a tune to show Jamie Dougan, it's maker, that it did indeed cross the Atlantic safely! :-)

N.B. I have mine tuned GDAE.

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The Tenor Guitar:
http://theirishtenorbanjo.ning.com/group/tenorguitar

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[AugustusLarch]

THat's a tenor uke, not a tenor guitar. Fail.

[Ptarmi]

@AugustusLarch Go look up 'Fletcher Instruments'! ..... then I'll accept your apology! ;-)

[lsamoa]

@AugustusLarch Definitely not a baritone uke, but as you said yourself a parlour-size tenor guitar, yes. They do come in different sizes (check out Gadaya's for example, same size as this one).

Good that we agree then :)

[AugustusLarch]

@lsamoa

The scale length is way too short to be a tenor guitar. If the bridge was next to the endpin the scale lenth would come out, but the bridge is right in the center of the lower bout. It's a short scale tenor (in a different tuning) or a bari uke with guitar strings.

Look at the other tenor guitar videos to see the difference.

[lsamoa]

@AugustusLarch It's a tenor guitar. Banjo headstock, floating bridge, steel strings, and thin neck that is much longer than a baritone uke would have. Baritone ukes have uke headstocks, fixed bridge with no tailpiece, nylon strings or similar (some of them silver-wound but never steel), and have a ukulele neck.

Very nice playing Ptarmi, you have a beautiful instrument!

[AugustusLarch]

@Ptarmi

Compare it to the other tenor guitars. It has a small scale length and actually pitches lower than tenor. This looks like a bari uke.

[KingMilesTagoyet]

Excellent! Beautiful instrument, really nicely played. I'll have to move back to Edinburgh one day!! Thanks, Paul

[tazio2]

Lovely playing , getting great tone out of that little thing, nicest tenor reels i;ve heard

[neillconnor]

Lovely playing

[SalPedi]

Great!....