Check out this Carlo Greco Tenor Guitar

[Dirt123]

Thought you guys might dig this.. Found it on the Elderly Instruments site:

http://elderly.com/vintage/items/80U-2044.htm

Beauty, eh?

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[danerectal]

Something(s) look oddly familiar about that one.

 

[jp]

Wow! That's beautiful. A little too ornate for my tastes, but beautiful nonetheless.

I remember seeing a beautiful blonde Guild electric tenor on ebay a few years back. Body shape was similar to this one, i.e., CE-100-ish, and it took a whole roll of paper towels to wipe my drool off of the keyboard. I've always wanted an old tenor archtop 'cuz I like the old 20s and 30s swing jazz. Anyways, it screamed Tiny Grimes to me!

 

[Walter Broes]

JP, a Dutch Dealer/Collector has (had?) Tiny Grimes' actual tenor Capri! I've even pawed it briefly at a guitar show. 8)

 

[jp]

I hope you didn't wash your hands for a few weeks . . . :mrgreen:. . . okay maybe I actually hope you did wash your hands :? . . . wash or no wash, that's a pretty cool story!

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

What do you guys think of turning this into an 8-string (a guitar body with the neck of a mandolin, mandola, octave mandolin, or bouzouki)? That's what it was originally. You could tune it like a mandola or octave mando. Or you could tune it like the top 8 strings on a 12 string, which is what Nick Reynolds did on a Martin 0-18.

http://pro.corbis.com/images/DZ005489.j ... 9B3515C%7D

http://pro.corbis.com/images/DZ005487.j ... C4BAE43%7D

Read about it here:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... 0%26um%3D1

Here's his 0-17T 8-string.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0spbwj0Ow