[Dixielandjazz] Lute or Tenor Guitar?

[Scott Anthony]

Actually a tiple is 10 strings in 4 "courses" so it is played as if it were 
4 string instrument. I think it is either (from bass to treble) 3, 2, 2, 3 
or 2, 3, 3, 2 (each of which adds up to 10). It sounds like a miniature 
12-string guitar/mandolin sort of thing.

The ones I've seen are the size of and tuned like a baritone uke - tuning 
same as the top 4 strings of a standard guitar I think.

Scott Anthony

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>
> There is also a member of the guitar family called the TIPLE which if a
> four string soprano guitar.
>
> Four strings, not sure of the tuning, favored in late 1930s & early '40s
> groups like Spirits of Rhythm, Cats and the Fiddle.
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