On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Rick Walker <
looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking of cool guitar tools, like the 'Harmonics Capo'
> here's a few that that I really like and have used a lot.
> (what are some others?)
>
>
> _The 'Third Hand Capo'_
> allows one to capo individual strings for interesting and quick 'altered
> tunings'
>
> _
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=third+hand+capo&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=3425282320810705673&sa=X&ei=5QmWTdyzMazOiALF_OmcCQ&ved=0CE0Q8wIwAw#ps-sellers_
>
> Only $13........this is a device that you could use multiples of for
> interesting tunings, although, in the long run, I think
> I prefer just rapidly retuning the guitar, manually.
>
>
> _The 'Piranha Bow'_
> allows a person's strumming hand to have the texture of a bow. Fantastic
> for rapid rhythmic work.
>
> _
http://www.piranhaguitarbow.com/_
>
> At $40, there not cheap, but he used to have a deal where he'd give you
> three if you bought two......don't know if he still honors
> that deal (I bought them for $25 at the time) but it's cool to get three
> people to go in on a buy and two of them
> played at once on an open tuned or lap steel guitar produces some very hip
> results
>
> _'Suzuki Method 16th scale Violin Bows'_
>
>
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=1/16th+violin+bows&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=10589079992227454761&sa=X&ei=DRCWTfCpEKXkiALdrJTgCA&ved=0CEcQ8wIwBA#ps-sellers
>
> At $19, these miniature bows are fantastic for playing electric guitar.
> I've had a lot of interesting results by using an open tuning on a guitar
> and then using
> two of them, one in each hand. You can bow rhythmically close to the
> bridge with your right hand
> and bow slowly over Barre Harmonics with the left hand to create really
> beautiful textures.
>
> Because the electric guitar neck is flat , one has three different options
> for playing
> 1) bass lines on the lowest string 2) melodies on the highest string
> 3) full chords by playing across the whole fretboard
>
> _'Vegetable Brushes'_
> These come in various colors and various degrees of stiffness to provide
> alternate strumming textures
> (not unlike lightly brushing over the strings with the tips of one's
> fingers)
> My wife hipped me to this approach by using a ball point pen or a drum stick
> to rake over the strings to provide
> new 'rubato' textures for strumming.................it makes 'smears' of
> sound instead of really articulate rhythms.
>
> _'This Rad Pick that my brother gave me years ago'_ that has four gradiated
> plastic picks on one side and three on the other so
> that every time you pick the guitar, it has the effect of a 'flam' of four
> individual picked sounds together......
> .......like an ersatz 48 string guitar effect. Not sure what it's called,
> though.
>
> _'The Jellyfish Pick'_
>
>
http://www.jellifish.com/techniques/videos/bow-4-qt.html
>
> At $12 a cool pick with multiple steel rods that allows for picking or mild
> bowing techniques
> _
> 'Little Easter Island Tiki Head Blue Plastic Martini Stirrers'_
> fantastically balanced to be able to play a prepared or open tuned lapsteel
> guitar like a hammer dulcimer.
> Awesome because they can be used as a tiny slide as well as a tiny hammers.
>
> _'Clitoral Vibrators or Egg Vibrators'_
> especially if you can find the kind that have a short chord with a remote
> speed control.
> You just turn it on, let it dangle on a lap steel or prepared guitar and
> then fuck with the speed............very nice random stuff occurs.
>
> _"An Multiple Allen Wrench Plectrum"_
> This was made famous by Thom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.......you
> space the Allen wrenches out and use them as
> a 'flamming' plectrum.
>
>