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- From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Tremolo system -- HELP !!!
- Message-ID: <By6I0I.L9r@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:02:41 GMT
- Sender: cmptrc.lonestar.org
- Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov21.141003.4282@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> afcondon@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Andrew Condon) writes:
- >In <1992Nov19.204007.21919@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:
- >[interesting tremolo-tuning discussion deleted]
- >
- >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?
- >
- >--
- >Andrew
-
- IMHO the Wonderbar was far too heavy of a contraption to mount onto the top
- of the guitar and it's range of pitch bending didn't compete with Floyd Rose
- units and those were two of the biggest reasons for its demise.
- --
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- Neal Howard '91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 CompuTrac, Inc (Richardson, TX)
- "Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps
- we shall learn the truth." -- August Kekule' (1890)
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