Eventually, though, the tenor became a niche thing, celebrated by just a few well-known artists, including David Grisman, Ani DiFranco and Neko Case. But a resurgence has been building through an ...

The tenor guitar grew out of the mandolin and banjo craze of the early 20th century. It has the body of a guitar married to the neck of a tenor banjo, with a scale length of around 23 inches.