This year's event takes place over the last weekend in May, in Astoria, Oregon. . | Credit: Courtesy Tenor Guitar Foundation Guitars come in many forms, mostly with six strings or doubled to 12.

An instrument that definitely fits the unusual category is the four-string tenor guitar, which — as legend has it — originated back in the 1920s by frankensteining a banjo neck and a guitar ...

As he explains in a new video with Taylor, “In around 2021 I began to have a feverish dream in my mind of a [four-string] tenor guitar but with an additional string.” Indeed, as he once told ...

Guitars come in all shapes and sizes and with everything from four strings — as in the tenor guitar — to 17, as in Gibson’s ...

Additionally, his father got him a tenor guitar when he was “very small.” Tenor guitars only have four strings. As a result, their necks are slimmer and better suited to very small hands.