The "Tenor Pan"

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The "Tenor Pan"

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Or what my wife calls it ... The "Fly Swatter" :lol:


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Had to build me a "personal pan" ... sold my Black Pearl ...

A356 cast aluminum with an L&M Perpendicular Pickup ...

Hi to lo: E C# G# E

The older I get, the fewer strings I need :whoa:

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Post by Stefan Robertson »

Fewer strings.

Keep going and you will only have one left like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc
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Luigi did a fantastic job!!!......
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Post by Stephen Abruzzo »

I love the scalloped fretboard! I bet it could double as an excellent "attitude adjuster".
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Howard, it was Luigi's "Final Exam" at the Aiello Pre-School of the Foundry Arts ...


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Beautiful work Rick!

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You obviously don't graduate from the Aiello Pre-School of the Foundry Arts without "game"....
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Cute Rig!
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Post by Rick Aiello »

Weeg was excited to "get 'er done"... ;) Fang, not so much :lol:

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Thanks for the kind words ... come to Ft. Collins in October and give 'er a go

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Will Do! Bringing Weeg this year?
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Very cool Rick Image
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Wow. Very cool, Aiello & Son.
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Post by Rick Aiello »

Jim Newberry wrote:Will Do! Bringing Weeg this year?
I don't think the Hilton could handle the overflow of co-eds from Colorado State ...

Luigi is a very strong "Babe Magnet" ... :lol: :wink:
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Post by Rick Aiello »

Two things are obvious after putting in several hours on the "Tenor Pan" .... .

1) The lighter body makes it more "bass-y" ...

2) Not practicing since Feb. .... Leads to very poor outcomes :lol:

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Cool :D
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Luigi rocks!
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Did you really name your dog Fang?
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Post by Rick Aiello »

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Weeg was named after Luigi Galvani ...

Fang was named after Hagrid's Neapolitan Mastiff (Harry Potter) ...

Dusty was named after Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream ...

Tucker was named after the Marshall Tucker Band ...

Maximo Joe got his name cause my wife wouldn't let me name him Moe Joe ...

Ellie and Emmie ... LEILO & MEILO ... I was into acronyms in those days ...

Chewy the pig is named after Chewbacca ...

Bellatrix, Molly and Tonks (goats) and Lilly Potter (guinea pig) ... More Harry Potter references ...

Gloria (Tennessee Walker) ... She came with that name ...

I think that's all of them ... ;)

Back to the pan , here's Weegee with the sacrificial polystyrene pattern and the pan fresh out of the sand ...

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Post by John Groover McDuffie »

Most impressive!

Curious as to why a 4-string?
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Post by Rick Aiello »

I started playing C#m7 last year ... Hi to lo: E C# G# E B E ... Just to change things up (been playing C6/A7 since the 80's) ...

I changed strings one day ... And didn't have a the big E and B .... So I just strung up the top four ... To play it until the D'Addario Chromes came ....

I liked it a lot ... Kept just 4 on ... And after a couple months, I decided I'd cast a 4 stringer for myself with the leftover stuff I had bought to make Jeff Kearns 7 string and cast amp ...

I really like it ... It's so tiny, with such a big sound :)

Here it is next to an my A22 ....

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Post by Bill Creller »

Nice !! you've done it again Rick ! :D
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Post by Former Member »

got to play the tenorpan yesterday.
Nicest sounding steel I've ever heard. Every string and note has a hard to define uncluttered round fullness. Open E, then tune 1 string up a step and you got C#.
Easy to get into perfect tune. Seems made for slants, and the interesting qualities a slanted chord makes compared to straight bar. Sounds very Hawaiian with a simple guitar or uke backing track.
Newest PU is real clean and smooth. Rick is on to something!