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Chris writes:
Thanks for all those photos, Chris! However, it's really difficult to find out specific information about individual Gilbert Lee Stiles' guitars because - for the most part - they were one-offs, many being totally unique. Stylistically, yours doesn't really resemble the solidbodies we've looked at before (here, here and here) other than having similar pickups, but if you check out this blog post showing a collection of G L Stiles guitars, you'll see that the hollowbody electric 2nd from the right does share some features in common with your tenor guitar.
Actually, because of its 8-string nature, I'd be inclined to refer to this as a mandocello (a mandocello is to a mandolin as a cello is to a violin) rather than a doubled-course tenor guitar. However, I guess it's up to you and whatever tuning you decide to use.
Although it is undoubtedly a G L Stiles guitar (or mandocello or whatever), I'm slightly puzzled that the headstock seems to show the name "J L Stiles", but maybe the "J" and the "L" are just design elements of the headstock inlay and are not supposed to represent letters.
G L Wilson
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Guitar
G L Stiles electric hollowbody mandocello or 8-string tenor guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com:
This is an 8 string, double course, 23" scale, Semi Hollowbody, Tenor I have.
It's a Stiles and I have not been able to find any real information about it. Perhaps you would be willing to post this on your site?
Let me know if you have any questions about it. I've been playing it and it has a really wonderful sonorous and unique voice.
Chris
Actually, because of its 8-string nature, I'd be inclined to refer to this as a mandocello (a mandocello is to a mandolin as a cello is to a violin) rather than a doubled-course tenor guitar. However, I guess it's up to you and whatever tuning you decide to use.
Although it is undoubtedly a G L Stiles guitar (or mandocello or whatever), I'm slightly puzzled that the headstock seems to show the name "J L Stiles", but maybe the "J" and the "L" are just design elements of the headstock inlay and are not supposed to represent letters.
G L Wilson
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- 1925 Stromberg-voisinet Tenor Guitar, From The Company That Became Kay
guitarz.blogspot.com: This is a beautiful 90 year old tenor guitar. She's had some work done to keep her looking young. With a spruce top, birch back and sides, and mother-of-toiletseat fretboard it's hard not to love this odd shaped tenor....
- Walking Cane Tenor Guitar/mandola - For Those Who Like Music On The Move, Now Here's An Instrument You Can Take Hiking
guitarz.blogspot.com: Now this is clever. I'll let the seller/maker describe it: A truly unique instrument, functions as a cane and a Tenor Guitar or 4 string Mandola at the same time. Tuned C-G-D-A, 19 inch scale, so it is a little long for a mandola,...
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guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another instrument that looks to be a handmade one-off, although a lot more craftsmanship has gone into creating this than on the boat oar guitar we saw in the previous blog post here on Guitarz. I'm not sure what...
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guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's another rare G L Stiles guitar with its distinctive scrolled body horns and intricate headstock carving. Gilbert Lee Stiles built a number of essentially one-off guitars from his workshop in Miami, Florida during the 1960s...
- British-made Windsor Whirle Tenor Guitar - Or Is It A Baritone Ukulele?
guitarz.blogspot.com: This Windsor Whirle was made in Birmingham, UK, according to the eBay seller in the 1920s. Myself, I'm not so sure about that, and would widen the timeframe to anytime in the 20th Century up until the 1940s. But perhaps the seller...