[pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...

[Porritt, David]

I'm not a guitarist, but Jose Feliciano used to play some fast passages that way.  He would just slap the string against the fret hard enough that the string would vibrate.

dp


David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jon Page
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:05 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] OT: I know it's not a piano...

I think he's finger-syncing to a recording.  How can a plucked string
emanate form merely touching the fret board?
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Regards,

Jon Page