Gold Tone TG-10/L Left-Handed Tenor Guitar with Gig Bag

This is the left-handed version of the Gold Tone TG-10 tenor guitar — and I want to make sure left-handed players know right away that this instrument was designed with you in mind, not an afterthought conversion. The TG-10/L is tuned CGDA, exactly like a tenor banjo, which makes it a natural and genuinely useful second instrument for any tenor banjo player. If you already know your chord shapes on the tenor banjo, you can pick this up and be making music immediately — just with a warmer, woodier tone and the sustain that only a guitar body can give you. At $479.99, it’s Gold Tone’s most affordable tenor guitar, and it includes a heavily padded gig bag. I’ve recommended it to students for years as one of the smartest low-cost expansions a tenor player can make.

The construction is straightforward and honest: laminated mahogany back and sides for weather stability and durability on the road, a solid-looking spruce top for brightness and projection, a rosewood fingerboard with 20 frets, and an ebony bridge with bone saddle for good tone transfer and intonation. The ZeroGlide nut is a thoughtful inclusion at this price point — it eliminates the open-string binding and tuning issues that plague cheaper nuts. The bolt-on mahogany neck with a two-way adjustable truss rod means the instrument is easy to service and adjust as the seasons change. Kluson-style tuners with chrome buttons complete a package that feels more considered than its price tag suggests. The 23″ scale length keeps tension comfortable and makes chord-melody work genuinely enjoyable rather than a workout.

Each instrument receives a professional setup at Gold Tone’s factory in Titusville, Florida before it ships to you. That means checking and adjusting the neck relief, filing the nut slots to the correct depth and width for the included string gauges (.008, .014, .024w, .035w), setting the action at both the nut and saddle, and making sure intonation is as close to correct as the instrument allows. Most instruments at this price come from the factory playable but not optimized — this setup changes that, and it’s one of the reasons customers come back to us for their next instrument.

Why Buy From Banjo Warehouse

Banjo Warehouse is an authorized Gold Tone dealer, which means every instrument we sell comes with the full manufacturer warranty and the confidence that you’re buying a genuine, factory-supported product. I’ve been in this industry for over 45 years — I co-own Watch & Learn in Atlanta, I wrote Banjo Primer (the top-rated beginner banjo method), and I co-designed the OB-Standard with Gold Tone — so when I put my name behind a recommendation, I mean it. The TG-10/L is a genuinely good instrument at a fair price, and it’s one I’d hand to a tenor banjo student without hesitation. We offer flexible financing through PayPal Pay in 4, Afterpay, and 3, 6, 12, and 24-month plans with no late fees, so you can get playing without waiting.

Gold Tone TG-10/L Specifications

Frequently Asked Questions

I play tenor banjo — will I be able to play the TG-10/L without learning a new tuning?

Yes, absolutely. The TG-10/L is tuned CGDA, which is standard tenor banjo tuning. Your chord shapes and scale patterns transfer directly. The main difference you’ll notice is the longer scale length (23″ versus a typical 19″ or 21″ tenor banjo), which means slightly wider fret spacing — but most players adapt to that within a session or two. The warm, sustained tone of the guitar body is a genuinely different experience from the banjo, and most tenor players find it addictive.

Is this really a proper left-handed instrument, or is it just a right-handed guitar strung in reverse?

The Gold Tone TG-10/L is a purpose-built left-handed instrument. The nut is cut for left-handed stringing, the tuners are oriented correctly for a left-handed player, and the internal bracing is designed to account for the reversed string tension. It is not a flipped right-handed guitar. Left-handed players deserve a real instrument, and that’s what this is.

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