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The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar.The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by Gibson and C.F. Martin so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on guitar.
Jazz guitarist Carl Kress used a variation of all-fifths tuning—with the bottom four strings in fifths, and the top two strings in thirds, resulting in B ♭ 1 –F 2 –C 3 –G 3 –B 3 –D 4. This facilitated tenor banjo chord shapes on the bottom four strings and plectrum banjo chord shapes on the top four strings.
Banjo, bass: 4 strings 4 courses. E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2: US The Cello banjo is sometimes called "bass banjo", but it is tuned differently, and there are true bass banjos as well. Banjo, cello: 4 strings 4 courses. C 2 G 2 D 3 A 3 "bass" banjo US Same as used for the cello. Banjo, cello: 5 strings 5 courses. G 3 D 2 G 2 B 2 D 3: banjo cello US One ...
The book has since been published in a case-size edition by William Bay, Mel's son and has spawned a series of similar books like the Encyclopedia of Guitar Chord Progressions (first published in 1977 [3]), Encyclopedia of Guitar Chord Inversions, Mel Bay's Deluxe Guitar Scale Book, Encyclopedia of Jazz Guitar Runs, Fills, Licks & Lines, and ...
A variety of tunings are used for the four string tenor guitar, including a relatively small number of re-entrant tunings. One example of a re-entrant tuning for tenor guitar is D 4 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4 with strings 3–1 as for the normal 6-string guitar, but string 4 tuned to D an octave above the 4th string of the 6 string guitar.
Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [1]
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The Old Plantation, c. 1785–1795, the earliest known American painting to picture a banjo-like instrument, which shows a four-string instrument with its 4th (thumb) string shorter than the others; thought to depict a plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina The oldest extant banjo, c. 1770–1777, from the Surinamese Creole culture.