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- From: afcondon@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Tremolo system -- HELP !!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.141003.4282@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:10:03 GMT
- References: <54l302y72amr01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <9211070736.AA05706@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Nov19.204007.21919@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
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- In <1992Nov19.204007.21919@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:
- [interesting tremolo-tuning discussion deleted]
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- All this talk of spring-based tremolo systems, plus a hankering for a new
- guitar which has one, leads me to ask: Whatever happened to the Washburn
- Wonderbar trem system? I always thought the torsion bar was a good attack on
- the tuning problem, but no-one ever seemed to use one (except Robbie Robertson, and the guy in the Durutti Column).
-
- What was the fatal flaw? Or was it a marketing failure?
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- Andrew
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