Re: guitar bow (was Re: OT: sitar-style bridge)

["pvallad1" <pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com>]

I have this device buried in one of my boxes from the California-Florida 
move
(Dave, I'll try to remember to bring it to the next Hazard Factor/Future
Perfect show that I attend :)).

It is better to think of it as an alternative to the pick than as a
replacement for an E-Bow.  There is simply not enough length to it to get a
good, long sustained note that a bowed string player can get from a good 
long
bow across a string.  What it _was_ designed for is getting a quick bowed
attack from your guitar strings instead of the traditional plucking sounds.
Since there is less resistance using this thing as opposed to a pick, you 
can
conceivably play a lot faster using it than using a pick.

All in all, if you're looking for yet another way to get a different sound 
out
of a guitar, it might be something to add to the ol' toolbox (along with 
the
E-bow,  brushes, slides (holding it parallel to the string with the 
plucking
hand and using the edge of the slide to "bow" the string, and other tools 
that
folks here already know about).

Paolo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Porter" <azrix@n2music.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 3:34 AM
Subject: OT: guitar bow (was Re: OT: sitar-style bridge)


> Speaking of advertising in Guitar Player; in the back of an old Guitar 
>and
Bass Players Buyer's Guide, 1998-1999, I think, there was this ad for a 
"bow"
that worked like a violin bow, but it was curved so that you could get to 
each
individual string. It was only something like 25 or 30 bucks (and it even
included rosin). It looked like it would work as good on an acoustic as an
electric guitar.