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| | Data:- Body shape: Guitar
- Top: Flat or arched
- Back: Flat or arched
- Bridge: Fixed or floating
- Frets: Fixed chromatic
- Strings: 4
- Courses: 4 ( 1 - 1 - 1 - 1)
- Scale: 508 - 584 mm
Just like the archtop guitar, the tenor guitar is a guitar/mandolin hybrid. It has four strings usually tuned in fifths, and is therefore even closer to the mandolin than the six-stringed standard archtop guitar. It is usually tuned CGDA like a mandola/viola, but the lower GDAE (octave mandola tuning) and even low octave CGDA (mandocello/cello tuning) are used.
There is also a rare 8-stringed tenor guitar which for all practical purposes is identical to a octave-mandola or a mandocello.
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