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The Piranha Bow looks very interesting to me. I was looking for an "e-bow like thing" for nylon string guitars, do you know if it would work with them ? I can't exactly figure out how it works based on the few pictures on the site, is there any videos to check out ? Thanks for sharing ! Le 1 avr. 2011 à 20:10, Rick Walker a écrit : > > Speaking of cool guitar tools, like the 'Harmonics Capo' > here's a few that that I really like and have used a lot. > (what are some others?) > > > _The 'Third Hand Capo'_ > allows one to capo individual strings for interesting and quick 'altered >tunings' > > >_http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=third+hand+capo&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=3425282320810705673&sa=X&ei=5QmWTdyzMazOiALF_OmcCQ&ved=0CE0Q8wIwAw#ps-sellers_ > > Only $13........this is a device that you could use multiples of for >interesting tunings, although, in the long run, I think > I prefer just rapidly retuning the guitar, manually. > > > _The 'Piranha Bow'_ > allows a person's strumming hand to have the texture of a bow. >Fantastic for rapid rhythmic work. > > _http://www.piranhaguitarbow.com/_ > > At $40, there not cheap, but he used to have a deal where he'd give you >three if you bought two......don't know if he still honors > that deal (I bought them for $25 at the time) but it's cool to get three >people to go in on a buy and two of them > played at once on an open tuned or lap steel guitar produces some very >hip results > > _'Suzuki Method 16th scale Violin Bows'_ > > >http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=1/16th+violin+bows&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=10589079992227454761&sa=X&ei=DRCWTfCpEKXkiALdrJTgCA&ved=0CEcQ8wIwBA#ps-sellers > > At $19, these miniature bows are fantastic for playing electric guitar. > I've had a lot of interesting results by using an open tuning on a >guitar and then using > two of them, one in each hand. You can bow rhythmically close to the >bridge with your right hand > and bow slowly over Barre Harmonics with the left hand to create really >beautiful textures. > > Because the electric guitar neck is flat , one has three different >options for playing > 1) bass lines on the lowest string 2) melodies on the highest >string 3) full chords by playing across the whole fretboard > > _'Vegetable Brushes'_ > These come in various colors and various degrees of stiffness to provide >alternate strumming textures > (not unlike lightly brushing over the strings with the tips of one's >fingers) > My wife hipped me to this approach by using a ball point pen or a drum >stick to rake over the strings to provide > new 'rubato' textures for strumming.................it makes 'smears' of >sound instead of really articulate rhythms. > > _'This Rad Pick that my brother gave me years ago'_ that has four >gradiated plastic picks on one side and three on the other so > that every time you pick the guitar, it has the effect of a 'flam' of >four individual picked sounds together...... > .......like an ersatz 48 string guitar effect. Not sure what it's >called, though. > > _'The Jellyfish Pick'_ > > http://www.jellifish.com/techniques/videos/bow-4-qt.html > > At $12 a cool pick with multiple steel rods that allows for picking or >mild bowing techniques > _ > 'Little Easter Island Tiki Head Blue Plastic Martini Stirrers'_ > fantastically balanced to be able to play a prepared or open tuned >lapsteel guitar like a hammer dulcimer. > Awesome because they can be used as a tiny slide as well as a tiny >hammers. > > _'Clitoral Vibrators or Egg Vibrators'_ > especially if you can find the kind that have a short chord with a >remote speed control. > You just turn it on, let it dangle on a lap steel or prepared guitar >and then fuck with the speed............very nice random stuff occurs. > > _"An Multiple Allen Wrench Plectrum"_ > This was made famous by Thom Morello of Rage Against the >Machine.......you space the Allen wrenches out and use them as > a 'flamming' plectrum. >