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Re: PETE ATTACKS WHAMMY BAR
At 15:25 1/30/96, Michael D. Mullins wrote:
> Your usual Fender tremolo arm, mine included, has a big, rounded plastic tip
>on it, and I wondered aloud a couple of posts ago just how one would go about
>getting one of these decidedly "un-sharp" items to go completely through one's
>hand. Maybe I'm basing my thoughts on an incorrect assumption of physics, but
>I would think it this task would be made much easier if it were just the thin,
>not-necessarily-rounded, metal tip of the bar that was being run through.
>
> M.M.
Hi Michael,
OK, I think I get it now. My thinking was, if he had an un-tipped whammy
bar in the previous pictures, wouldn't that mean that he had had practice
with the sharper bars and thus would be _less_ likely to ram one through
his hand. Of course you're right in thinking it's harder to jam a blunter
object through anything.
Actually, I was surprised that he hadn't done that before, when I stopped
to think about it -- all those years, all those windmills...
Alan
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