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06-26-2003, 05:05 AM
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I"ve seen Victor Wooten and Bill Dickens use what looks like a cloth covered hair tie to mute unwanted strings from vibrating and possibly as a capo.Does anyone know what ther're using,how they're using them and where you can get them? Thanx |
06-26-2003, 05:08 AM
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06-26-2003, 06:00 AM
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It's just a regular hair tie, just ask your girlfriend/mother/sister where they buy theirs. | When you say girlfriend/sister/mother... you don't mean one woman that is all three, do you? 
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06-26-2003, 11:51 AM
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When you say girlfriend/sister/mother... you don't mean one woman that is all three, do you? | 
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06-26-2003, 11:57 AM
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When you say girlfriend/sister/mother... you don't mean one woman that is all three, do you? | Well, the scary thing is that it's possible to be all that
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06-26-2003, 12:55 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by bassiclybass
I"ve seen Victor Wooten and Bill Dickens use what looks like a cloth covered hair tie to mute unwanted strings from vibrating and possibly as a capo. | Well, it's probably not tight enough to serve as a capo. Anyway, those things are better left to guitarists! |
06-26-2003, 01:02 PM
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Well, the scary thing is that it's possible to be all that | Wow I didn't know Cologne, Germany was in WVA.
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06-27-2003, 02:40 AM
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It's just a regular hair tie, just ask your girlfriend/mother/sister where they buy theirs. | Are you saying - "Real Men" don't need no stinkin' girly hair ties to mute strings!!  
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07-11-2011, 06:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: London, England | | | yeah you can use a hair tie I use a fluffy black and white polkadot one that I grabbed from a girlfriend long-past some of them you just need to wrap around twice to get the tension right, and you really don't need much it's not trying to be a capo.
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07-11-2011, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by bassiclybass  I"ve seen Victor Wooten and Bill Dickens use what looks like a cloth covered hair tie to mute unwanted strings from vibrating and possibly as a capo.Does anyone know what ther're using,how they're using them and where you can get them? Thanx | Scunci hair tie (umlaut over the u) with a lose cloth cover.
They are not a substitute for a capo.
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07-11-2011, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Chopshonky yeah you can use a hair tie I use a fluffy black and white polkadot one that I grabbed from a girlfriend long-past some of them you just need to wrap around twice to get the tension right, and you really don't need much it's not trying to be a capo. | IS that the best hair tie for METAL? 
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07-11-2011, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | | Victor Wooten used to use a normal hair tie... or as he called it in an interview a ponytail holder. I think Anthony Wellington started using it when he began playing with Vic. but now I think they both use the Gruv Gear ones. I use a hair tie just below the nut, it cuts down the unwanted vibration and noise from the strings, but still lets the note ring out, unlike a mute, plus it doesn't affect freted notes... just remember to move it back over the nut, if you are playing harmonics. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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