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J. Hayes · June 19th, 2009, 05:04 PM

sat on the floor in front of him was pretty unique! The pulling device on the guitar also had a tremolo arm on it so he could bend any of the six strings and use the tremolo arm at the same time.........

I don't really like the way they look, but if you're wanting the tremolo arm to work on all six strings along with a bender, I think the Higgin's Peg Bender would have to be the answer as it'd be on the peghead of the guitar and would work no matter what type of bender was on the guitar. Some of the "floating" type tremolos might detune a bit when it was operated though. I don't think I'd like a tremolo that didn't activate all six strings.

All that said, I was entranced with something I noticed on Will Ray's B-Bender Mania video! In addition to the bending licks I particularly watched his left hand. On a non vibrato guitar it's hard to add tremolo to a full chord. Will would hold a chord and just move his index finger, thus adding vibrato on only one string! Yet it gave the impression that the whole chord was moving. A pretty sweet trick, I'd never seen that done before and have since added it to my bag of tricks........Thanks Will.....JH in Va.

June 19th, 2009, 05:04 PM	#23 (permalink)
J. Hayes Tele-Afflicted Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia Beach, Va. Posts: 1,241	Phil Baugh's old six pedal bender unit that.......... sat on the floor in front of him was pretty unique! The pulling device on the guitar also had a tremolo arm on it so he could bend any of the six strings and use the tremolo arm at the same time......... I don't really like the way they look, but if you're wanting the tremolo arm to work on all six strings along with a bender, I think the Higgin's Peg Bender would have to be the answer as it'd be on the peghead of the guitar and would work no matter what type of bender was on the guitar. Some of the "floating" type tremolos might detune a bit when it was operated though. I don't think I'd like a tremolo that didn't activate all six strings. All that said, I was entranced with something I noticed on Will Ray's B-Bender Mania video! In addition to the bending licks I particularly watched his left hand. On a non vibrato guitar it's hard to add tremolo to a full chord. Will would hold a chord and just move his index finger, thus adding vibrato on only one string! Yet it gave the impression that the whole chord was moving. A pretty sweet trick, I'd never seen that done before and have since added it to my bag of tricks........Thanks Will.....JH in Va. __________________ Ralph Mooney rules!!