Intro of Tender Feeling.

Quick question but what is the stringed instrument used on the intro to this song? It just doesn't sound like a guitar to me.

I think it's a Sitar.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar

Double post.

Last edited by Mike Eder on Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

Sitar entered my mind but it was not in common use for several more years in pop music. It's also has harsher sting to it.

Is a dulcimer out of the question?

Quick question but what is the stringed instrument used on the intro to this song? It just doesn't sound like a guitar to me.

Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy and Harold Bradley were guitarists on the 9-29-1963 Nashville tracking session, perhaps one of them used a technique to make their instrument sound like a sitar.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Guitar-Sound-Like-a-Sitar

Elvis Presley, "Tender Feeling," Kissin' Cousins (RCA LPM 2894, April 1964)

That would make sense. Thanks John.