My Guitar Family As Requested

[eltuce]

1961 Gretsch Peppermint Twist



Maphis! When I got this it had a rattlesnake tail in it for extra mojo! Weird.



Kay Kessel Pro

[eltuce]

1941 Harmony All-American

[eltuce]

Danelectro Pro 1 soon to be heading to Oigun



El Grande Supro Amp which goes well with anything El Tuce



Tele and Esquire

[eltuce]

Billy Zoom Custom Shop Silver Jet



Ok, I'm getting tired but I think I have covered most of the family or at least all of the greatest hits.

[eltuce]

And then there's this part of the family.

[olrocknroller]

Green, green green, gre-e-e-e-en!
olrnr

[Dennisthe Menace]

Eltuce, I thought I had bad GAS with 32, but you outclocked me Dude...VERY NICE Collection!!....

[Sarah93003]

That Starfire is definitely in my top 3 that I own.

Sweet! What are the other two.

[MWaldorf]

Nice collection! Do you play the tenors much? Are they meant to be strummed or plucked like a banjo?

[JimPage]

Tommy, I'll take the Stratotone Jupiter, the '68 Crestwood Deluxe, and the kitty-cat.

And one of those Teles. And that's all I need. And this paddleball game.

Mel, I have a 1954 Harmony tenor acoustic which looks like it was made by Martin; sure it wasn't, but it isn't the usual painted-fretmarker-and-birchwood-style Harmony. I also used to have a late-1930s Epiphone archtop tenor I got for $4 because the thrift-shop owner couldn't figure out where to install the other two guitar strings!

I tuned mine to the lower four guitar strings.

The action is rather high on the Harmony, so I never play it much, but when I do, and when I played the Epiphone, I played them like a bass.

One of the Kingston Trio played a Martin tenor guitar, and, from tenor players I've known, it was tuned by some like a banjo and either strummed fast and/or picked fast like a four-string banjo.

Neat instruments with a pleasant voice. I read somewhere that Paul McCartney's dad had played a tenor guitar in one of his bands.

--Jim