Check out this Gibson tenor guitar

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What can you guys tell me about it?

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What strings would you put on it?
 
I wonder why the weedly weedly crowd never went for those. You could play solos that would make a dog's ear bleed.
 
it's a TG-0 reissue model from the 60s. the original TG-0 was in the late '20s, and Gibson reissued it in the 60s through mid 70s (iirc). it's a 22-3/4 scale with a 1-3/16" nut width. the fretboard may be Braz. it's tuned in fifths - usually CGDA (similar to a tenor banjo). standard string gauges are: .036, .024, .016, .010 (recommend bronze strings for acoustic).
 
Tenor guitars probably work well in a group, (The Kingston Trio used one, presumably to good effect.) They make a horrible solo instrument, though. There is a woman around here who performs solo with one and it sounds very thin and tinny.
 
There is one at my local GC that I keep trying to talk them down on. It's tagged $999 and they won't budge. :(

That's a super cool find Mark!!!
 
There is one at my local GC that I keep trying to talk them down on. It's tagged $999 and they won't budge. :(

That's a super cool find Mark!!!

It is very cool, but unfortunately it's just in for service. It seems to be in great shape though.

I could see it fitting in well with Kicking Up Cinders. :thu:
 
Why not? Just curious.
While they brought some good music to the public attention, they were an entertainment act that engaged in silly banter and often rewrote folk songs to bring in (allegedly) funny punch lines. If you listen to the traditional Worried Man Blues and compare it to the Kingston Trio's It Takes a Worried Man, you'll get some idea of what I mean.

To their credit, the trio never tried to pass themselves off as serious folk singers; they were college boys in the late 50's and early 60's trying to have fun and get laid. They were not what I was looking for.
 
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