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--- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: >Have you tried any other sized bow for guitar? As probably a lot of us have, I pretty much destroyed a cheap violin bow many years ago doing the Jimmy Page thing. I find the cello bow's length to be better for the way I bow, and it does seem to be a bit sturdier. An important difference, though, is that I modified a guitar (a cheap Epiphone Les Paul Junior bolt-neck) specifically for bowing: to save the horsehair and to get that cello vibe, I use heavy flatwounds on it (the bottom 6 of a 7-string set, tuned down in a variety of modal tunings), and removed some wood with a belt sander to allow better bow access to the outside strings. I had to raise the bridge up all the way and shim the neck; I can't bow my Strats at all, they're way too flat for me. It's sort of a work in progress; I'm chip-carving the top with Old Norse knot/animal art and I'll probably add a neck pickup at some point. I'll probably put on a trapeze tailpiece, since the bridge height now puts a lot of strain on the posts. It all started as an attempt to build an electric hardanger arpeggione (radically arched frets/bridge with drone strings underneath the frets like a sitar), which I gave up on when I couldn't get the compound fret radius right. Keeps the rosin off my regular guitars :) > A lot of looping guitarists seem to like using the > e-bow. I think that too makes you monophonic, right? Yeah, I use an eBow, but I find it to be a very different animal from a real bow. I like to use it in two basic ways: one is to layer long sustained single notes that fade in and out of a chordal loop at different points. The other is to use it for snakey single-note/single string stuff on top of a chordal loop. -t- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com