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Fender has also built some 3/4-size student guitars with a scale length of 22.5 inches (570 mm) or shorter. Gibson uses a scale length of 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (630 mm) on most of its electric guitars, including the ES-335, Les Paul, SG, Flying V, and Explorer. Gibson has used other scale lengths on various models through the years.
The shorter-necked, tenor banjo, with 17 ("short scale") or 19 frets, is also typically played with a plectrum. It became a popular instrument after about 1910. Early models used for melodic picking typically had 17 frets on the neck and a scale length of 19 1 ⁄ 2 to 21 1 ⁄ 2 inches.
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]
The two main four-string Selmer models were a regular tenor guitar with a smaller body and a 23 inch scale length for standard CGDA tuning, and the Eddie Freeman Special, with a larger body and a longer 25.5-inch scale length, using a reentrant tuning for the A string which was designed by English tenor banjoist Eddie Freeman to have a better ...
Its scale length is typically about 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (420 mm). It is normally tuned like a viola (perfect fifth below the mandolin) and tenor banjo: C 3 –G 3 –D 4 –A 4 .
6 Tenor Scale Length. 7 African American template. 7 comments. 8 Origin. 10 comments. 9 Banjo jokes. ... I am most familiar with the Irish tuning of the tenor banjo ...
The instruments that are known in the US as the mandola and the octave mandolin tend to be known in Great Britain and Ireland as the tenor mandola or the octave mandola. The Irish bouzouki is a very similar instrument, and is often confused with the octave mandolin, but it has a shorter scale length and a different tuning.
Hybrid of mandolin and banjo but with only one string per course Banjo, Long Neck 5 strings 5 courses. E 4 B 2 E 3 G ♯ 3 B 3 "Pete Seeger" Banjo US (commissioned by Pete Seeger) Open string tuning; often played with capo on 3rd fret Banjo, tenor 4 strings 4 courses. Standard/common : C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4. Alternate: Irish : G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4; US US ...