Re: Re: Re: Different EBows

[Texture444@aol.com]

once upon a time, steinberger sound (via gibson corp's mgmt & dough) funded
the building of a prototype guitar (by bob wolstein) w/selectably 
polyphonic,
in-built string drivers (ie, "e-bows").
(an additional groovic feature that was worked on was the ability to sweep
through the natural harmonic series, w/a knobule.)
me & henry kaiser (& david lindley, methinks) shared this steinberger 
guitar
for a while; i had it for about 5 or 6 months.
it was a little clunky (used an outboard power-thingy & attaching cable), 
but:
it rocked!, and had enormous potential.....
i used it on the eponymous "mark isham" recording for virgin (which won a
grammy, in 1990?), and on the film score for columbia pictures' "the 
beast".
anyway:
insofar as i know (& much to ned steinberger's great chagrin), mr. henry 
j. @
gibson stopped the project before completion; i believe that after a year
transpired, ownership rights were supposed to revert to the estimable mr.
wolstein.
just a l'il tale, for ya's.....
best,
david torn