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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The tremolo arm on an electric guitar is used to alter the tension and therefore the pitch of the strings. Its operation requires a shaking movement of the player’s hand/arm which could be described as a tremble.
Eggcornicity has sometimes been denied when two words share an etymological root, as tremolo and tremble do, but I’ve never found that notion convincing; in this case, after visiting a different sensory modality, tremble has returned with a volitional quality absent in the original.
That’s a beautiful looking guitar, Tom. Your bigsby is making me drool a bit. Is that a thumb pick dangling from the tremblo arm? Classy fingerstyler. ...
... fall over each note, you never seem to know where its going to go, and he’s a master at using the tremblo arm (yes, i got that off the official site!) ...
... ~=Vibrate with your finger or your trembolo arm. \=Slide down to the lower note. 12(14)=Bend the 12’th note up to 14’th note. h=Hammer on, p=Pull of. ...
It doesn’t even have a tremblo arm. This is just a poor quality copy of the traditional randy rhoads guitar. If you just want it because it looks cool, ...
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