Clifton Hyde with Mustapick Acoustic Baritone Guitar; Brooklyn, NY 2007

The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. The Danelectro Company was the first to introduce the baritone guitar in the late 1950s. Shortly after Fender release the Bass VI which is essentially a baritone guitar, despite being called a bass.^{[citation needed]} The baritone guitar was not originally popular with players or listeners.^{[citation needed]} However, the instrument began to appear in surf music, as well as background music for many movie soundtracks, especially spaghetti westerns. It also has the ability to be used as a bass guitar if strung correctly. Clifton Hyde (b. ... In a string instrument, the scale length (often simply but confusingly called the scale) is the sounding length of the strings. ... Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

The baritone guitar was also used by country artists and can be heard on recordings by Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, and Willie Nelson, often doubling the acoustic bass part of the song.^{[citation needed]} Folk-Pop singer Jimmie Rodgers also favored the baritone guitar, which can be heard in the opening bars of his recording of "Woman from Liberia". Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dischord Records) plays a baritone guitar when playing with his band The Evens. More recently, the baritone guitar was used in some Barenaked Ladies and Stevie Ray Vaughan songs^{[citation needed]}, and was also used by Daron Malakian of System of a Down prior to the release of Mesmerize. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny used baritone guitars made by Linda Manzer on his 2003 solo album One Quiet Night. Ani DiFranco often plays a baritone guitar, including those by David Berkowitz, Joe Veillette and Alvarez, frequently employing alternate tunings. Clifton Hyde has had his acoustic baritone guitar featured in the music of Sigur Ros and Pape Armond Boye. Dylan Carlson of drone metal band Earth played a baritone guitar on Earth's 2005 LP Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method). Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. ... For the song of the same name, recorded by Tracy Byrd and later by Jason Aldean, see Johnny Cash (song). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other persons named George Jones, see George Jones (disambiguation). ... Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. ... Jimmie Rodgers was the name of two singers: Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) Jimmie Rodgers (SPC Deputy Director General) Note that there was also a Jimmy Rogers (note the spelling), a blues singer born in 1924. ... Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (pronounced ), born April 16, 1962), is an American singer and guitarist. ... Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington DC in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. ... For other uses, see Fugazi (disambiguation). ... Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ... The Evens are a Washington, D.C. duo, formed in the fall of 2001, comprising partners Ian MacKaye (of Fugazi, formerly of Minor Threat) and Amy Farina (formerly of The Warmers). ... Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan. ... Stephen Stevie Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist. ... Daron Vartan Malakian (Armenian: ) (born 18 July 1975) lead guitarist in the Armenian-American band System of a Down. ... System of a Down (commonly referred to as System or abbreviated as SOAD) are an American heavy metal band, formed in 1995 in Glendale, California. ... Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954 in Lees Summit, Missouri) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. ... One Quiet Night is a solo album by Pat Metheny, released in 2003. ... Ani DiFranco (IPA: ) (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ... Clifton Hyde (b. ... Sigur Rós (which translates from the Icelandic as victory rose) is an Icelandic post-rock band. ... Earth are an American doom metal band who were pioneers of the minimalistic, bass-heavy, drum-less form of doom sometimes known as drone metal. ... Pioneered by the band Earth, Drone metal, also known as drone doom, is a subgenre of doom metal that takes the heaviness and slowness of its progenitor to a new extreme. ... Dylan Carlson of Earth. ... Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) is the fifth full-length studio album by drone doom band Earth. ...

Numerous fingerstyle guitarists use baritone guitars, including Andy McKee, Don Ross, Martin Simpson and Dave Amato. Don Ross plays a baritone by Canadian Luthier Mark Beneteau, and Simpson has played baritones made by English luthier Ralph Bown. Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (picking individual notes with a single plectrum called a flatpick) or strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords. ... Andy McKee during a 2007 concert This article is about the guitarist Andy McKee. ... Don Ross (born Montreal November 19, 1960 of Scottish-Micmac parents) is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist noted for the emotion and intensity of his playing. ... Martin Simpson (b 1953) is an English guitarist. ...

A standard guitar's standard tuning (from lowest string to highest) is E A D G B E. Baritone guitars are usually tuned a perfect fifth lower (A D G C E A), a perfect fourth lower (B E A D F♯ B), a major third lower (C F A♯ D♯ G C) or an octave lower. Gretsch, Fender, Jerry Jones, Burns London and many other companies have produced baritone guitars since the 1960s, although always in small numbers due to low popularity.^[1] The perfect fifth or diapente is one of three musical intervals that span five diatonic scale degrees; the others being the diminished fifth, which is one semitone smaller, and the augmented fifth, which is one semitone larger. ... The perfect fourth or diatessaron, abbreviated P4, is one of two musical intervals that span four diatonic scale degrees; the other being the augmented fourth, which is one semitone larger. ... A major third is the larger of two commonly occuring musical intervals that span three diatonic scale degrees. ... Gretsch is a U.S. musical instrument manufacturer currently being distributed by guitar company Fender and drum craft company Kaman. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Baritone guitars have larger bodies than standard guitars, especially in the case of acoustic instruments, and have longer scale lengths which allow the strings to be tuned lower while remaining close to or at normal tension. On a standard steel-string acoustic guitar, the scale length (the distance from the nut or string guide to the saddle on the bridge) is typically 24.9" to 25.7", and the strings range in diameter from .012" to .054". The scale lengths of various baritone designs range from 27" to 30.5", and the string gauges range from the normal .012-.054" set to sets as thick as .017-.095". Shorter-scale baritone guitars are more like long scale guitars, having more midrange volume, whereas the longer scale lengths and heavier string sets give more bass to the instrument's timbre. Shorter scale baritones tend to be tuned C-C or B-B whereas longer ones typically are tuned A-A.^[1]

Duane Eddy

The Danelectro baritone was used by million-selling guitarist Duane Eddy on some of his huge hits, such as "Bonnie Came Back", "Because They're Young" "Kommotion", (all 1960), "My Blue Heaven"(1961) , "Deep in the Heart of Texas" (1962), "The Son of Rebel Rouser" (1964). The instrument was used almost exclusively on his best-selling album "The Twang's The Thang" (Jamie Records, 1960) and pops up regularly on singles and albums throughout his career (for instance, "Twang Thang", The Duane Eddy Anthology, Rhino Records).

The "twangy" sound of his guitars (which include Duane Eddy custom-builts by Guild, Grestch and Gibson) augmented the even deeper twangy sound made by the Danelectro baritone. Duane used the familiar black model and an unsual grey "Longhorn" model.

Mike Mushok

Mike Mushok (born April 10, 1970) is the lead guitarist for the hard rock/post-grunge band Staind, who hails from Ludlow, Massachusetts. Mike usedhis signiatured Ibanez MMM1 from "Dysfunction" (1999) up until "Chapter V" (2005). The guitar now is discontinued by Ibanez. At the 2008 Winter NAMM show, PRS Guitars introduced the new Mike Mushok Signature Baritone SE. ^[2] Mike Mushok (born April 10, 1970) is the guitarist and songwriter of the hard rock/post-grunge band Staind, who hails from Ludlow, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... The NAMM (National Association of Musical Merchants) Show is the largest musical trade show in the world. ... PRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer, based in Stevensville, Maryland. ... Mike Mushok (born April 10, 1970) is the guitarist and songwriter of the hard rock/post-grunge band Staind, who hails from Ludlow, Massachusetts. ...

Tic-tac bass

"Tic-tac bass" is a method of playing baritone guitar or 6-string bass, in which a muted baritone guitar doubles the part played by the bass guitar or double bass. The term is commonly used in country music.^[3][4] A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. ...

Baritone guitar and 6-string bass

"Baritone guitar" is often used as a generic term to describe both baritone guitars and 6-string basses, and in many web articles, you will see a 6-string bass described as a "Baritone guitar."

See also

• Bass guitar
• Tenor guitar

A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... The tenor guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string version of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gerken, Teja. (June 2003). "Acoustic Longnecks". Acoustic Guitar: pp. 94-97. 
2. ^ NAMM 2008. Guitar Co.. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
3. ^ Pomeroy, Dave (2007-02). 1962 Supro Pocket Bass. Bass Player. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.
4. ^ Neptune� Longhorn Bass6. Jerry Jones guitars. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.

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