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 Tom Molyneaux  My brother Ed first alerted me to the existence of tenor guitars in the late '60s when he found an article in the World Book Encyclopedia explaining the tuning and showing a kid playing one. We were immediately interested, since both of us were violin (and later viola) players. It was 20 years before either of us actually saw one! When John Lennon was shot, I decided life was too short to not pursue my goal of being a professional musician, so I dropped out of college and played electric bass in local bands in the Binghamton, New York area before moving to California in 1985 to do the same. After being evacuated from my house in Berkeley, CA because of a chemical leak down the street, my brother, my wife Paula, and I were hanging out at a restaurant when Ed found a Gibson TG-O advertised in the classified ads he was compulsively reading. We bought it, of course, and that was our first tenor. In the early '90s I developed a very serious Repetitive Strain Injury, brought on by overuse of computers at my day job as well as years of bass playing. I quit playing musical instruments entirely for two years as a result. When I could finally play an instrument without pain and numbness, I switched to tenor guitar as my main instrument. I also developed the annoying habit of converting every short scale electric guitar I see into a 5 string tenor, with a low F string. Lately I've been experimenting with various 6 string tunings, all based on fifths, but the electric tenor guitar has remained as my instrument of choice. My current band is called Dogtown, and as soon as our website is ready you can check us out at www.dogtownband.com. My current favorite guitar is a 1961 Gibson Les Paul Jr. (SG) tenor. My next guitar will be a 5 string Tenorcaster, to be built by Joel Eckhaus of Earnest instruments. Then my life will be complete! Somehow I had the foresight to register the name tenorguitar.com and that's how the ever watchful Steve Pyott found me on the internet. He alerted me to Mark Joseph's club on Yahoo, the Tenor Guitar Registry, and my life has never been the same since. Luckily, two members of the club (Pat Reinhardt and Tom Vincent) actually design websites, and my domain name was saved! Welcome to tenorguitar.com! Tom Molyneaux tomm@tenorguitar.com  Mark JosephsSteven PyottPatrick ReinhartTom VincentAnd feel free to e-mail any one of us with a question or comment |
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