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Vakiintuneet termit Tremolo/vibrato lienevät Fender tyyppisissä kitaroissa ja vahvistimissa yleisesti käytössä ja voihan niitä sitten poikkeavasti käyttää kukin miten haluaa. Lisää päänvaivaa aiheuttanee tämä Fender vahvistimien Vibrato -kanava 8) Vaikka jokainen sen ymmärtää tarkoittavan tremolo kanavaa. Itse pitäydyn noissa vakiintuneissa. Esim Fender talla tai kampi tilauksen yhteydessä saattaa aiheuttaa sekaannusta jos tilailee vibrato tallaa tai vibrato kampea.
 
Vibrato channel in action.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--V1vV0Gt5k
 
Saattoipa siinä olla kyse patentista, kun Tremoloksi nimettiin.
 
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2741146A/en
 
Despite the fact that Bigsbys model was the first mass-produced tremolo bar in history, the majority of modern-day whammy bars still owe at least a drink a man from California named Clarence Leonidas Fender, and not for the described misnomer mess he created. Call it a vibrato or tremolo bar, much of musical history was compressed and infused into a guitar component named Fender Synchronized Tremolo, which was supposedly developed in parallel with equally iconic guitar designs such as the vintage Stratocaster. This legendary instrument was to be the home of the first truly modern tremolo bar back in 1954.
 
Building upon Bigsbys limited capacity for effective pitch change, Fender offered the design which would give credence to the tired saying about beauty in simplicity. Still, as players earned their chops by their proficiency with the instrument, beauty itself had to take the back seat behind the technical intricacies of the design like mentioned in the patent.
 
First of all, Fenders tremolo was not called synchronized in order to provide it with a flashy marketing name, as it offered the integration of the bridge and tremolo itself. Once assembled, the entire piece would be placed on the guitar belly-mounted down with 6 wood screws.
 
A bevel on the bottom located near the screw holes was the key to creating a fulcrum point. This allowed the tremolo assembly to rock back and forth with the tremolo arm. Springs located in a cavity behind the guitar mounted to a string block to help counterbalance the tension of the strings. A simple cost-efficient design that has been around for almost 70 years and Fender has no indication of stopping production. Arguably one of the most produced and replicated tremolo systems the guitar world has ever seen.
 
Two decades before Fenders famous naming confusion, Clayton Orr Kauffman, also known as Doc, tried to doctor the sound of his guitar to make his listeners feel like they are on vacation in the shadow of Mauna Loa. To this effect, he designed the Kauffman Vib-Rola which is still treated as a caveman ancestor of modern-day tremolos. As this happened around the mid-1930s, you can safely say that tremolos history follows in the footsteps of that of the electric guitar itself, a testament to its vital role in giving this instrument its distinctive sound for the ages.
 
The Vib-Rola invention needed to generate revenue quickly, so Epiphone acquired the distribution rights and bundled the novel device with its acoustic guitars. Rickenbacker wanted to go electric and soon purchased the rights to install this early version on its lap steel and Electro-Spanish models. However, the Vib-Rola rose to mythic status in the pantheon of electric music only after John Lennon played his Rickenbacker 325 to conquer the pop-rock world (and countless female hearts) in the early 1960s.
 
No onhan noita kutsuttu Whammy Bareiksikin.
 
So where did Whammy Bar come from?
 
Another moniker its often associated with is the whammy bar. But why? While its naming history may seem less intricate, its certainly not lacking in colorful anecdotes. Experts and historians tend to agree on the theory that the term whammy in whammy bar was inspired by the sound Lonnie Mack achieved when manipulating the pitch in his 1963 song Wham!. The tremolo bar in this song produces a bold and almost aggressive sound. Interestingly, while the famous song ended dramatically, its possible that the tremolo bar originally aimed to emulate the softer, sliding sound of a Hawaiian steel guitar.