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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 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
- Scale: 508 - 584 mm
The eight-string tenor guitar is a tenor guitar with eight strings in four courses - or a guitar shaped tenor mandola if you like. Alhtough historically it's evolved from the tenor guitar, I've placed it in the tenor mandola department here because for all practical purposes it plays and (almost) sounds like one.
The eight-string tenor guitar is occasionally called Irish tenor guitar, not becuase it has any connection to Ireland, but because of the similarity to the tenor mandola that is popular in Irish music.
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