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Gourd Tenor Guitar

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This is an "improvised" Tenor Guitar whos body is made from one half of a hard shelled gourd. Any gourd instrument has to be designed from the ground up since no two gourds are alike. I have to rely on experience and intuition since it is not like any previous projects. Each gourd yields two halves for bodies so I can make two instruments. In this case I made one Tenor Guitar, and a Mandola. (see here)

In this case the Tenor Guitar has a 23 inch scale.

The top is Norway Spruce.
The neck and headstock is Black Cherry.