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"Calm down, calm down" (in thick Liverpudlian)

In your own time Frank, no pressure...

opticnerve wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:GOSH I CAN HARDLY WAITMAYBE ITIS A RARE ONEFIREGLO WITH REVERB

STOPSHOUTING PAUL>>>JEEZ!!!

I GUESS GUITARS THAT ARE RARE ONEFIREGLO WITH REVERB NEED ALL CAPS FOR DESCRIPTION!
We're just kidding Frank. In case you didn't know, on these forums, all caps is viewed as yelling.

AGREE!!!

Please send pics! Maybe then we have to install bigger fonts, BTW...

Hotzenplotz wrote:AGREE!!!

Please send pics! Maybe then we have to install bigger fonts, BTW...

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
OK - you knew someone was going to do it

I think you all scared poor Frank off with your large fonts reverberating all over the place!

Interesting first post!

Welcome to the Forum, and Please do post photos. I'm interested to see what this looks like.

Gents, I'm probably pointing out the obvious, but in case not, I think our new forum member meant vibrato, as in tailpiece, rather than "REVERB."

Whatever the case, yes, please post photos!

Seeing as how Leo Fender couldn't keep vibrato and tremolo straight, we should cut Frank some slack for mixing up vibrato and reverb.

jdawe wrote:Seeing as how Leo Fender couldn't keep vibrato and tremolo straight, we should cut Frank some slack for mixing up vibrato and reverb.

I've always noticed that people called them Trem bars...False.
My understanding of a tremolo would be wigggleing your hand on the string while sustaining a note.
Maybe he does mean tremolo because a Kaufmann (From what I've read) dosn't so much bend the ***** up and down, it shakes it side to side.

Vibrato and tremolo are clearly two different things, vibrato is a modulation of the pitch, tremolo is a modulation of the amplitude of the signal.

Vibrato and tremolo are clearly two different things, vibrato is a modulation of the pitch, tremolo is a modulation of the amplitude of the signal.

Exactly. Fender gets them backwards, calling a whammy bar (which increases and decreases string tension, and thus modulates pitch) a tremolo bar, while the amplitude modulation on Fender amps is called vibrato.

IvanMunoz wrote:

jdawe wrote:Seeing as how Leo Fender couldn't keep vibrato and tremolo straight, we should cut Frank some slack for mixing up vibrato and reverb.

I've always noticed that people called them Trem bars...False.
My understanding of a tremolo would be wigggleing your hand on the string while sustaining a note.
Maybe he does mean tremolo because a Kaufmann (From what I've read) dosn't so much bend the ***** up and down, it shakes it side to side.

You are way off here. Wiggling the fretting finger does exactly the same thing as working a whammy bar. And whether the handle operates vertically or horizontally makes no difference whatsoever. An easy way to remember it is to think of a Tremolo stompbox or amp effect... which is an effect on volume, not pitch.