Tal Farlow discusses guitar players

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Tal Farlow discusses his take on guitar as a whole

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Tal Farlow discusses his start as a jazz musician

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Q: “How do you think of the guitar?”

A: “Well, I think I told you once before that, my father, he strung up what was basically a mandolin with four ... well it has eight strings they are pairs of strings. Anyway, what it was essentially a four-stringed instrument with the strings tuned to the highest four strings of the guitar, in other words, that interval. A chord shape would work on that. It would also work on the first four strings of a guitar. Then when, you know, I was a kid then, when I grew up I thought I knew a lot of chords on those four strings and when I shifted to the regular six-stringed guitar and my hand grew big with me, you know, and I had this big thumb, so I grabbed the other two strings with that thumb, you know.”