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Topic: You will not drop this vintage tone bar |
Michael Greer
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Oct 2016 1:04 pm |
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Recently came across this neat vintage tone bar.
Reminds me of someone's idea of a better mouse trap.
It fits nice and tight to your finger and really is impossible to drop.
Were tone bars like this ever popular back in the day? |
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 12 Oct 2016 3:23 pm
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Cool. It even has volume and tone knobs.
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 12 Oct 2016 4:54 pm just one question
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An interesting reinvention of the 'wheel'.
How does one propose performing forward and reverse
bar slants in order to keep a smooth flow of the melody line? |
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Nathan Laudenbach
From:
Montana
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Posted 12 Oct 2016 5:29 pm
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| I thought I'd seen everything. Even though it's impractical, it's AWESOME |
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Frank James Pracher
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2016 7:20 pm
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I've never seen that one before... very interesting.
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 2:58 am
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Ray, to do slants, you need to be "sideways double jointed"... 
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Tom Pettingill
From:
California, USA (deceased)
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 7:44 am Re: just one question
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| Ray Montee wrote: |
How does one propose performing forward and reverse
bar slants in order to keep a smooth flow of the melody line? |
Since it's a good bet that the person who invented this bar is long gone I guess this qualifies as a rhetorical question. 
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Brad Davis
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 8:25 am
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I know a dobro player who jb welded two hose clamps to the ends of an old stevens steel the same way. Think he lost his grip or dexterity. He slides his finger in and tightens them down, lol. Good contemporary style player, but he doesn't seem to do many slants.
I find slants rather fun myself. |
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David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 3:28 pm
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When ever I see these awkward devices, I think of Billy Hew Len, and what he was able to do with the ultimate.
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 6:49 pm
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| I think you're supposed to slant the guitar..... |
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Nathan Laudenbach
From:
Montana
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Posted 13 Oct 2016 7:52 pm
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| I bet those mesh metal wraps rip the knuckle hairs off your fingers!! |
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Cartwright Thompson
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 8:03 am
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That bar reminds me of that Chinese thing where you put your finger in and then can't get it out!  |
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 1:27 pm Re: I'm With Howard
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| George Piburn wrote: |
I'm With Howard
I'm thinking Mark Roeder could make a Swivel for his stands. |
Ya, that would be like . . . let me think . . . a better mousetrap! Let's keep this thread going. It could get quite ridiculous.
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Joe Elk
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 2:03 pm
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one of the the best things about the Forum.
Humour!
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John Bresler Jr
From:
Manhattan KS, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2016 4:49 pm
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| I wonder if the patent ever got approved. It says on the box "patent applied for". Maybe could've bought this on a Hawaiian infomercial. Very cool item. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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