This just in: 1950s M-75 Aristocrat Tenor Tiny Grimes model

[Thunderface]

This just showed up at Willie's Guitars, a 1950s Guild M-75 Aristocrat Tenor, the Tiny Grimes model. According to "the bible" they made several of 4-string guitars, on the superstructure of a CE-100, for Tiny Grimes, but there was no mention of a four-string Aristocrat model. Paging Hans!

http://www.williesguitars.com/index.cfm/home/1/newlisting/10/image/1

 

[Zelja]

Wow, interesting. Someone should let Neko Case know - she's one of the few modern artists I know who uses tenor guitars.

 

[SFIV1967]

The tailpiece of that M-75 Tenor at Willies does definitely not look original to me.
Anyway, there were a few such tenors made, this link to the Youngbloods Lowell Levinger (Banana) guitars was posted a few times before which shows a beautiful example:
http://www.vintageinstruments.com/museu ... lpage.html

The one at Willies has the single G headstock veneer, the Lowell Levinger one has no G.

By the way, have you seen this black tenor before?
http://www.denverfolklore.com/instrumen ... photos.htm

Ralf

 

[Christopher Cozad]

"Ahh, the tenor guitar", he said, waxing nostalgic as he remembered his Stella 4-string.

There is a special place, forever reserved in my heart, for so-called "tenor" guitars. If I had started with one of these Guild beauties, well, it may defy imagination as to where I'd be today!

Christopher