{"id":236,"date":"2004-04-27T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2004-04-27T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T01:50:24","slug":"guitar-geek-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Geek High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a guitar geek high.<\/p>\n<p>I took home Anis&#8217;s Kapok-style guitar (classical shape with steel strings) and modified it. Since the strings had little rings for their ball ends, I tried putting my old thick E string through them in a flash of inspiration. A tremolo on a classical guitar bridge! I wound it through a few times. After all that, I played a chord and tugged on that little loop I made (around 12 centimeters in diameter) and it raised in pitch. A little. (Borrow someone&#8217;s digicam I will!) Ideally, I&#8217;d have two bars clamping on the rings, or at least one steel bar going through it. It would then pull all six strings, raising their pitch.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Illustration 1: (Pardon the crude Photoshopping.)<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/classicaltremolo.gif\" alt=\"Classical Tremolo (classicaltremolo.gif, 4\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on a guitar geek high. I took home Anis&#8217;s Kapok-style guitar (classical shape with steel strings) and modified it. Since the strings had little rings for their ball ends, I tried putting my old thick E string through them in a flash of inspiration. A tremolo on a classical guitar bridge! I wound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}