Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

It is generally accepted that the tenor guitar was created to allow a tenor banjo player to follow the fashion as it evolved from Dixieland Jazz towards the more progressive Jazz that featured guitar.

Music theatre work for soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 amplified mixed voices, amplified orchestra ( 15 winds, 13 brass, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos + electric piano, off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar.

* Hout ( 1991 ) for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, piano and marimba (+ woodblocks )

Waits put together a regular touring band, The Nocturnal Emissions, which featured Frank Vicari on tenor saxophone, Fitzgerald Jenkins on bass guitar, and Chip White on drums and vibraphone.

On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael's new song, " Georgia on My Mind ", with Carmichael doing the vocal, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone.

) The second instrumental break recreates a popular rhythm and blues " out chorus " with tenor sax and guitar emulating the rhythm section.

Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar. 1928 Dobro style 37 tenor guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection

His personnel around 1937 included: Lester Young and Herschel Evans ( tenor sax ), Freddie Green ( guitar ), Jo Jones ( drums ), Walter Page ( bass ), Earle Warren ( alto sax ), Buck Clayton and Harry Edison ( trumpet ), Benny Morton and Dickie Wells ( trombone ).

Here is an Irish tenor reborn as a White Negro – a Caucasian Soul Man – pleading and beseeching over a bed of dreamy folk-jazz instrumentation: acoustic bass, brushed drums, vibes and acoustic guitar, the odd string quartet – and of course flute.

The group consists of Peter Bernstein ( guitar ), Bill Charlap ( piano ), Ravi Coltrane ( tenor saxophone ), Lewis Nash ( drums ), Nicholas Payton ( trumpet ), Peter Washington ( bass ), and Steve Wilson ( alto saxophone, flute ).

Some transposing instruments, such as the piccolo, double bass, guitar, and the tenor voice, transpose at the octave to avoid ledger lines.

Many instruments have their range as part of their name: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, baritone horn, alto flute, bass flute, alto recorder, bass guitar, etc.

In November 2007, Daevid Allen held a series of concerts in Brazil, with a branch of Gong, which was called Daevid Allen and Gong Global Family ( Daevid Allen on vocals and guitar, Josh Pollock on guitar, megaphone and percussion ; Fred Barley on drums and percussion ; Fabio Golfetti on guitar, Gabriel Costa on bass, Marcelo Ringel on flute and tenor saxophone ), along with his other band University of Errors ( Allen, Josh Pollock, Michael Clare, Fred Barley ).

Paterson stayed with Rowland, who added Billy Adams ( guitar / banjo ), Seb Shelton ( drums, formerly of Secret Affair ), Micky Billingham ( keyboard ), Brian Maurice ( alto saxophone ), Paul Speare ( tenor saxophone ) and Steve Wynne ( bass ), releasing a handful of singles in 1980 and 1981, and adopting a new look that included hooded tops, boxing boots, and pony tails.

In 1960, the group known as The Four Lovers evolved into The Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio ( formerly of The Royal Teens ) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on bass guitar and bass vocals.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher.

It can also be written in tenor clef at concert pitch, which is usually done to prevent too many ledger lines in case it is a high part.

The series has been described as " the most essential to our understanding of the human condition in modern times, just as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling is essential to understanding the tenor of the 16th century ".

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed.

In the previous example, " the world " is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of “ the stage ”; " the world " is the tenor, and " a stage " is the vehicle ; " men and women " is a secondary tenor, " players " is the secondary vehicle.

Mandel Bruce " Mandy " Patinkin (; born November 30, 1952 ) is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist.

The deep pitch warrants the wide-spaced chords that the banjo tuning permits, and the close tuned tenor does not have the same full, clear sound.

For the tenor viol, the tuning is G-C-F-A-D-G ( though the Renaissance tenor viol is usually tuned A-D-G-B-E-A ).

) The bells are usually tuned to a diatonic major scale, with the tenor bell being the tonic ( or key ) note of the scale.

** 8 percussionists: chimes, xylophone, tenor drum, bass drum, 2 vibraphones, 2 cowbells, 2 tam-tams, 6 bongos, 2 snare drums, tuned almglocken ( g > c ’’), 3 gong, 2 suspended cymbals, 6 crotales ( indefinite pitch ), optional glockenspiel

For pipes in A, the tenor drone is tuned to the low " A " of the chanter, usually the tonic note, and the bass drone to the " A " an octave below this.

There is also sometimes a dominant drone-this can be either a baritone, tuned a fifth above the bass, or else an alto drone, tuned a fifth above the tenor.

The church has a ring of eight bells, with the tenor ( heaviest bell ) weighing 29-2-26 ( 1. 5 tons ) and is tuned to Dflat.

The Tower has a ring of five bells with a tenor of 9cwt 2qtrs 22lbs, tuned to the note of G.

Other instruments called " tenor violin " were tuned a step lower: F C G D ( a fifth below the viola ).

Single tenor drums can also be tuned to have a high pitch so that a line of tenor percussionist can run split parts amongst them.

The tenor ( largest ) bell has a mass of 1. 3 tonnes and is tuned to the key of D.

The tower holds six bells with the tenor tuned to G #.

The tenor is just under 12 cwt, tuned to F #.

Barney used GDAE tuning on a 19 fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle / mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.

* Percussion instruments ( at least 4-5 players ): timpani, bongos, snare drum, tenor drum, bass drum, 4 tuned drums, cymbals, suspended cymbal, triangle, 2 cowbells, chimes, tam-tam, anvil, temple blocks, wood block, tambourine, xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba, and vibraphone

Most of the time, tenor drums are tuned relatively tightly, giving them a high-pitched sound that carries well outdoors.

It consists of four main instruments: a snare with a loose sounding ring ; a tenor drum, with a low booming sound similar to that of a floor tom ; a bass, which is typically tuned as low as possible for bottom end sound ; and cymbals which are identical to rudimental marching cymbals.