E-bows are so much better suited to pianos...

...good stuff...kind of a sitar type of drone thing goin on...needs more boss metal zone though :embarrassed:...I like the effect the damper pedal has...
 
That was fantastic. I've played piano with fingerpicks and mallets before, but never had enough e-bows to do something like that.
 
I was sitting backstage at my friends' concert, Ron Sexsmith, opening act, with what's her face who had "Luka" for a hit, and her husband and his producing partner were there, fresh from an L.A. Cheryl Crow recording session.
Yeah, Mitchel Frome and Tchad Blake. I got into what they said about producing The Police.
Tchad said he was going outside for a ciggie break, smoking inside just becoming illegal, so I joined him.
I made a grab for his ring, seeing some strange stuff, and teasing him about e-bows advertised in comic books. He said that's where he first saw it, only he took his ring to a jeweller and paid $20,000 to make it work for him. He could bow one, two or three strings, usually just one. He was the first to tell me that Jimmy Page got his guitars custom made so he could use a violin bow.

Even though pianos are considered to be more of a classical and jazz instrument,
I always thought naked women brushing their breasts across the open strings would be the next big tonal breakthrough,
and I'm almost there to seeing that live on t.v.
 
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John Watt said:
He was the first to tell me that Jimmy Page got his guitars custom made so he could use a violin bow.
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...true, to a point....its not like Jimmy Page went back in time to '59 and had gibson make him a les paul so he could play bow...he had the bridge set up like the bridge on a violin bow...think of the strings forming a little bridge, with the next one at a different height...that way he could play individual strings with the bow...
 
Peeker said:
interesting...but couldn't you do this with a synth?
and do it a lot easier, too?:confused:
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It could be done on a synth, but the metal thing bouncing on the string as it's vibrating sound could be hard to capture, it'd be fun to see how close you could get.
This is kind of like an "acoustic synthesizer".
 
No, I've never heard of Suzanne Vega, Mitchell Froom, Tchad Blake or Ron Sexsmith,
talking about me in interviews. They went out of their way to talk to me, the hot lefty,
while we were there, Ron pumping me up backstage.
And I was just crashing over in Toronto at Ron's house, when he was still married.
And I didn't leave with any of the upscale women who were loitering in the lobby, afterwards.
Nope, I wasn't a rock star and didn't run the club that night.

I will admit, it's been hard to learn new things for quite a while,
until I invented my own.
 
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