A lot of us "old folkies" ran across the tenor guitar from listening to the Kingston Trio with Nick Reynolds on tenor. He capoed high up the neck, IIRC, to provide high harmony. I had a tenor for a while, but never really got into it. I was also familiar with John Mills, Sr. (tenor player with his sons in the Mills Bros), Tiny Grimes and Eddie Condon, although the latter played a Plectrum Guitar and not a tenor. Plectrum has a longer scale and a different tuning. Ozzie Nelson (known as an alto sax man and band leader before the radio and TV shows) played tenor guitar on some of Rick's records.
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