Comments on: Thingamajig Thursday: the whammy bar http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1568 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:09:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: octorok http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1568/comment-page-1#comment-10125 octorok Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:28:14 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1568#comment-10125 my wammy bar broke off and now i use as a tooth pick it rocks my wammy bar broke off and now i use as a tooth pick it rocks

]]> By: Paul http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1568/comment-page-1#comment-1728 Paul Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:00:55 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1568#comment-1728 Actually, Jimmy Page is using a 'B-bender" NOT a whammy bar. His chocolate Fender Telecaster is equpped with a Gene Parsons B-bender - a device that allows for "pedal-steel" effects. The device is set into the body and connects the upper guitar strap knob to the B string. One pulls on the strap, causing the bender to pull on the B string thereby raising its pitch. Page rarely uses a whammy bar, having only one guitar equipped with one - a blue Fender Stratocaster. Actually, Jimmy Page is using a ‘B-bender” NOT a whammy bar.
His chocolate Fender Telecaster is equpped with a Gene Parsons B-bender – a device that allows for “pedal-steel” effects. The device is set into the body and connects the upper guitar strap knob to the B string. One pulls on the strap, causing the bender to pull on the B string thereby raising its pitch.

Page rarely uses a whammy bar, having only one guitar equipped with one – a blue Fender Stratocaster.

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