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On behalf of Expert Village my name is Jim Dufresne, I'm here to tell you about the ebow.
What I found out about it was back in the 1920's they we're driven pianos with electronic
string device. Rather than having a hammer you press the key rather when you have the
hammer come up and hit the strings. They would have the ebow device on each set of strings,
don't forget some of the strings on the piano are triple. So they have this one device that
go over that set of strings and as you press the key down it turns on a switch that turns
on the ebow and that would drive the piano and that was in the 1920's. So this is not
a real futuristic device only in that it's used for the guitar is the magical part and
people that make this heet done a superb job making a string driver. It's so interesting,
now there are other ways of driving strings for example we use our fingers.
The ebow sustains can sustain a note which has always been typical on any guitar or any
instrument that you play a string on. Classical guitar non italic strings doesn't work at
all, let's try the bass strings nothing so you know it doesn't work on a classical guitar.
Why? Cause the classical guitar strings are made out of nylon they're made out of plastic
and this needs to work against a medal core string. So if you buy one of these you need
to try that in classical it's not going to work.