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A tremolo arm or tremolo bar (also called a whammy bar or whowy bar) is a lever attached to the bridge and/or the tailpiece of an electric guitar or archtop guitar to enable the player to quickly vary the tension and sometimes the length of the strings temporarily, changing the pitch to create a vibrato, portamento or pitch bend effect. Instruments without this device are called hard-tail. The... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Tremolo arm The tremolo arm began as a mechanical device for more easily producing the vibrato effects that blues and jazz guitarists had long produced on arch top guitars by manipulating the tailpiece with their picking hand.

Tremolo arm The tremolo arm is often integral to his use of the guitar to produce "sound effects" such as animal voices.

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Effects unit A so-called vibrato unit in a guitar amplifier actually produces tremolo, while a tremolo arm on a guitar produces vibrato.

Misnomer The tremolo arm on guitars is used to produce vibrato; not tremolo.

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Tremolo arm While the tremolo arm can produce variations of pitch including what is normally termed vibrato, it can never produce the effect normally known as tremolo (modulation of volume).

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Vibrato For example, vibrato is sometimes referred to as tremolo, notably in the context of a tremolo arm of an electric guitar, which produces variations of pitch.

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Tremolo arm The tremolo arm also passes through the tremolo plate and tailpiece block, providing direct and rigid connection.

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Fender Stratocaster Once in the floating position, players can move the tremolo arm mounted on the bridge up or down to increase or decrease the pitch of the notes being played.

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    Tremolo arm

    A tremolo arm or tremolo bar (also called a whammy bar or whowy bar) is a lever attached to the bridge and/or the tailpiece of an electric guitar or archtop guitar to enable the player to quickly vary the tension and sometimes the length of the strings temporarily, changing the pitch to create a vibrato, portamento or pitch bend effect.
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    Tremolo

    an electric guitar effect: see tremolo arm and vibrato unit.
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    Tremolo arm
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    Hard-tail

    A hard-tail guitar bridge for an electric guitar or archtop guitar is one without a tremolo arm or vibrato tailpiece.
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    Floyd Rose

    The bridge and arm design is changed in such a way that the guitarist's hand will be generally closer to the strings while holding the tremolo arm.
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    Vibrato unit

    The term vibrato unit was introduced on high-end Fender guitar amplifiers in the 1950s, in the same period in which what is now called a tremolo arm was introduced on Fender guitars.
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    Whammy

    A whammy bar is a colloquial term for a guitar's tremolo arm
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    Fender Mustang

    The Bronco had a single pickup, like the Musicmaster, but in the bridge rather than the neck position, and yet another Leo Fender designed tremolo arm.
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    Ibanez ZR

    An example of the tuning stability and rigidness of the ZR tremolo can be seen in the video for British band DragonForce's song "Through the Fire and Flames", in which Herman Li held onto his S Series guitar with only the tremolo arm, forcing a sharp upbend as the entire guitar's weight was handled by the tremolo system alone.
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    Luthier

    Paul Bigsby's innovation of the tremolo arm for archtop and electric guitars is still in use today and may have influenced Leo Fender's design for the Stratocaster solid body electric guitar, as well as the Jaguar and Jazzmaster.

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