The Tenor Guitar Gathering includes performances, workshops, jam sessions and more, all designed to raise awareness of tenor guitars. This year's event takes place over the last weekend in May, in ...

An instrument that definitely fits the unusual category is the four-string tenor guitar, which — as legend has it — originated back in the 1920s by frankensteining a banjo neck and a guitar ...

An instrument that definitely fits the unusual category is the four-string tenor guitar, which — as legend has it — originated back in the 1920s by frankensteining a banjo neck and a guitar ...

Additionally, his father got him a tenor guitar when he was “very small.” Tenor guitars only have four strings. As a result, their necks are slimmer and better suited to very small hands.

Tiny Grimes began his musical career playing drums and piano. In 1938 he took up the guitar choosing the unusual electric 4-string tenor guitar. In 1940 he joined the Cats And A Fiddle as guitarist ...

Wiltshire auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate expect her 1936, Martin acoustic tenor guitar, to sell for at least £5,000. Auctioneer Luke Hobbs said the guitar is "a direct link to the golden age of jazz".

The tenor guitar grew out of the mandolin and banjo craze of the early 20th century. It has the body of a guitar married to ...