Tenor Guitar with Sympathetic Strings
Based on the hardanger fiddle idea, tuned GDAE with 4 sympathetic strings running under the fretboard. Inspired by a conversation with someone who bought one of my other builds! Top and bottom are spruce and mahogany salvaged from an old gramophone and graded down. Neck is from an old teak window board. Walnut fretboard, bridges are gramophone mahogany, bone nut. Basic piezo pickup system mounted internally. White binding Finished with button shellac - very traditional golden brown colour. Resonance effect ranges to a light reverb acoustically, to a more significant drone when amplified (this is in part due to overall output being higher, and in part pickup placement).