Tenor guitar

Tenor guitar
Modern tenor guitar manufactured
by the Gold Tone Music Group [1]
String instrument
Other namesFour-string guitar
Classification String instrument (plucked, stringed instrument usually played with a plectrum)
Hornbostel–Sachs classification321.322-4
(Composite chordophone)
Developedc. 1927
Related instruments

The tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was initially developed in its acoustic form by Gibson and C.F. Martin so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on guitar.[2]

  1. ^ Tenor guitar on Gold Tone, 31 October 2019
  2. ^ "The Stringed Instrument Database: Index". Stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com. Retrieved 19 April 2021.