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#2462764 - 01/14/13 12:40 PM Playing Guitar using a Household FAN
Kuli24 Member Registered: 01/14/13 Posts: 2 Loc: Canada	I attached some guitar picks to my fan so it would play for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ-6txInu4M _________________________ Fender Strat, Fender Acoustic
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#2462771 - 01/14/13 01:30 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Kuli24]
Wheelz Senior Member Registered: 03/21/05 Posts: 124 Loc: Buckhorn, ON	Geeze, I've seen and heard the most annoying thing of 2013 so far. _________________________ Bob
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#2462774 - 01/14/13 01:41 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Wheelz]
Dannyalcatraz MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 07/28/04 Posts: 3357 Loc: Dallas/FW Metroplex, Texas	The REAL trick would be to attach a bunch of guitars to an industrial fan and hold out a guitar pick... _________________________ Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/
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#2462777 - 01/14/13 01:46 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Dannyalcatraz]
Junior 1 Platinum Member Registered: 02/23/06 Posts: 1061 Loc: Long Island	I can't say I'm a Fan of that one!!!
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#2462790 - 01/14/13 02:09 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Junior 1]
Larryz MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5949 Loc: Hwy 49, California	Welcome aboard Kuli24! It's Fan-tastic...but not going to be a big seller as it may scratch the sh*t out of your guitar... Edited by Larryz (01/14/13 05:19 PM) Edit Reason: sp
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#2462802 - 01/14/13 03:59 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Wheelz]
picker 10k Club Registered: 06/13/04 Posts: 13152 Loc: Near 12th Street and Vine...	Originally Posted By: Wheelz Geeze, I've seen and heard the most annoying thing of 2013 so far. The year is young yet, but you have found the winner early.. _________________________ Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else.
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#2462807 - 01/14/13 04:33 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: picker]
Scott Fraser MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 03/20/05 Posts: 4005 Loc: Los Angeles	I'm not particularly happy I invested 33 seconds of my life on this. _________________________ Scott Fraser
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#2462827 - 01/14/13 05:51 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Scott Fraser]
Griffinator TPS cook & bottle washer 10k Club Registered: 03/28/02 Posts: 19384 Loc: Lynchburg, VA, USA	My first thought was "Beaker come to life..." _________________________ Originally Posted By: tonysounds I would also watch [the Super Bowl halftime show] if applDeApp and Tabu were doused in hot oil, covered in feathers, and then set on fire while will.I.am was trepanned live.... and I would leave the sound on.
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#2462851 - 01/14/13 09:25 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Griffinator]
harvey Gold Member Registered: 04/05/09 Posts: 999 Loc: Sydney, Australia	I liked it! Great vocal and rall, too _________________________
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#2462871 - 01/15/13 05:08 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Kuli24]
LeftyBlues Platinum Member Registered: 05/22/03 Posts: 1555 Loc: Cincinnati, Ohio	Hah boy. Just when you think the internet is a good thing.... _________________________ I was born at night but I wasn't born last night...
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#2462880 - 01/15/13 06:06 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: LeftyBlues]
Guitarzan 10k Club Registered: 02/26/02 Posts: 14840	good one, i like the final strum. i expected the dive for the fan to turn to disaster. _________________________ http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will
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#2462886 - 01/15/13 06:53 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Guitarzan]
Danzilla MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 01/09/04 Posts: 4977 Loc: Baltimore, MD	And here Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan thought they were so cool using picks attached to drills... they've got nothing on you. Or do they? _________________________ "Am I enough of a freak to be worth paying to see?"- Separated Out (Marillion) NEW band Old band
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#2462894 - 01/15/13 07:26 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: LeftyBlues]
whitefang MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 05/13/02 Posts: 6150 Loc: Lincoln Park, MI, UNITED STATE...	I thought you meant you would play the guitar THROUGH the operating fan for that weird sound effect. Whitefang _________________________ I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left!
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#2462899 - 01/15/13 07:37 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: whitefang]
Winston Psmith MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 02/15/10 Posts: 2057 Loc: Inside the Beltway	After watching about 3 seconds of that, I'm convinced. The fan can play guitar better than the guy can sing . . . not that that's saying much. _________________________ "Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." Stephen King http://4-4-2music.bandcamp.com/album/figures-of-speech
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#2462907 - 01/15/13 08:50 AM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Winston Psmith]
The Geoff MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 11/05/04 Posts: 8690 Loc: Near Glasgow	....ve haf vays ov making you regret zes things....... G. _________________________ "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the World will know Peace": Jimi Hendrix http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=738517&content=music The Geoff - blame Caevan!!!
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#2462967 - 01/15/13 05:00 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Winston Psmith]
Dannyalcatraz MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 07/28/04 Posts: 3357 Loc: Dallas/FW Metroplex, Texas	Originally Posted By: Winston Psmith After watching about 3 seconds of that, I'm convinced. The fan can play guitar better than the guy can sing . . . not that that's saying much. We'll be eating all these words of mockery when he is hailed as the founder of industrial punk blues, 30 years from now. _________________________ Sturgeon's 2nd Law, a.k.a. Sturgeon's Revelation: “Ninety percent of everything is crap”. My FLMS- Murphy's Music in Irving, Tx http://murphysmusictx.com/
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#2463182 - 01/16/13 02:22 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Danzilla]
Mooseboy Senior Member Registered: 08/28/01 Posts: 52 Loc: ,NE,UNITED STATES	Originally Posted By: Danzilla And here Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan thought they were so cool using picks attached to drills... they've got nothing on you. Or do they? Gee, I dunno... Paul and Billy have a tiny edge in the technique department, and I guess their hair is slightly better. Oh, wait, the amps are WAY better, so it's Paul and Billy ftw. _________________________ There is no "last guitar."
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#2463184 - 01/16/13 02:35 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: Mooseboy]
CEB MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 06/03/09 Posts: 7590	_________________________ By this logic you can build a guitar with the finest woods, the best pickups and the best harness. Then use a defective neck and sell it. It would never sell. Guitarists are smarter than us.
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#2463221 - 01/16/13 08:02 PM Re: Playing Guitar using a Household FAN [Re: CEB]
Caevan O'Shite 20k Club Registered: 04/05/02 Posts: 22573 Loc: The Great Spirit's Handprint o...	I've done better than THAT with a fan. WAAAY more betterer. (And I don't mean sycophantic groupies. ) If you've got active EMG's or similarly hot, sustaining pickups, let a fan blow across your strings for a sort of wind-blown droning bowing-effect, clean or dirty. Playing chords with volume-knob swells for each change while employing a single-repeat echo with some reverb and occasionally dipping or pulling-up on a whammy-bar yields great moody soundscapes. _________________________ Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _
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