Baritone guitar

The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Gretsch, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP Guitars, PRS Guitars, Music Man, Danelectro, Schecter, Jerry Jones Guitars, Burns London and many other companies have produced electric baritone guitars since the 1960s, although always in small numbers due to low popularity. Tacoma, Santa Cruz, Taylor, Martin, Alvarez Guitars and others have made acoustic baritone guitars.

This article is about guitars tuned B-b. For the Fender Jaguar six-string bass tuned E-e, see Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom.
Baritone guitar
Clifton Hyde with Mustapick Acoustic Baritone Guitar; Brooklyn, New York City 2007
String instrument
Classification String instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification321.322
(Composite chordophone)
Playing range
(a standard tuned guitar)
Related instruments
  • Bowed and plucked string instruments
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