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08-12-2006, 09:35 AM
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I have been trying to find that Vic Wooten caterpillar looking thing that mutes your strings while playing slap and solo lines. I assumed (as have a number of other TB'ers) that it was a hair "Scrunchie". I asked my wife to pick one up at the store, and she insisted that what I wanted was not a Scrunchie, Scuncci or any such thing.
She's so adamant that she wants me to make sure you guys know. Well that, and it took me a while to find the right thing, so I thought I'd share...
I found Conair "Ponytailers" at Walmart, and they seem to work just fine. Carefully stretch 1 or 2 over the tuners and onto the neck. When you are slapping/tapping/plucking like Garrison push it up over the first fret or so to mute unwanted sympathetic resonance. When you're done, push it back behind the nut and it doesn't affect the sound at all.
Enjoy!
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08-12-2006, 09:51 AM
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08-12-2006, 09:58 AM
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08-12-2006, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by vindy500 bah humbug, scrunchie, ponytailer girly hair thing there all the same | Ha! Kinda my thoughts. what's in a name? Anyway, good to know. I tried the scrunchie thing for awhile and it just looked so dang stupid with all taht pink floral pattern nonsense  .
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08-13-2006, 10:34 PM
| | | | Yes that is the thing Victor Wooten uses, not a normal scrunchie, but what's the difference?
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08-13-2006, 10:43 PM
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08-13-2006, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by vindy500 bah humbug, scrunchie, ponytailer girly hair thing there all the same | Squire, fedora, same thing.
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08-13-2006, 10:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | thanks! Ive been wanting to get one of those for awhile
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08-13-2006, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Squire, fedora, same thing.
lowsound | what on earth are you talking about?
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08-14-2006, 12:01 AM
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08-14-2006, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | it actually does make a difference, a guitarist friend of mine let me borrow one of his hair tie ones...and it was a different brand, and it wouldnt fit over the headstock...and i tried another one, and it fit over the headstock but was way to loose on the neck...so thank you, ive been looking for this |
08-14-2006, 02:24 PM
| | | | If you use a normal scrunchie (like I do), double it on the neck (twist it into an 8 shape and put both sides on the headstock) and it works fine.
These ponytailers win for being smaller and easier to work with, but a regular scrunchie will work fine and usually covers more of the string.
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08-14-2006, 04:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Scrunchies have lots of fabric and are only intended for 10 yo girls with braces: 
Regular hair ties are thin and don't mute the strings effectively: 
These Conair "Ponytailers" are fuzzy like a caterpillar and don't look like a frou-frou shirt sleeve. Warning: Only black is appropriate for bass guitars. Use of pink, lavender, fuschia will result in girly, inferior, guitar-like tone.
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08-14-2006, 04:35 PM
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08-14-2006, 04:37 PM
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08-14-2006, 04:38 PM
| | [acct disabled - multiple aliases] | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Venice, CA | | | Old Jazz guitar players had the best solution. I attached to the headstock of the guitar. It had a level on it you could flip and when in gaged a metal bar with rubber on it would rest on the string at the first fret. Herb Ellis had one on his guitar all the time.
They were used for same reason to quiet strings when doing chord melody playing. |
08-14-2006, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | I don't use one all that often; if I need one, I'll use my sock.
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PS. Whathaheck is that smell?!
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08-14-2006, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | | | That's why yer playin' stinks, Joe.
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08-14-2006, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Erick Lam That's why yer playin' stinks, Joe.
I use a handmade silk scrunchie for my boutique bass. | If anything, it's funky. 
Joe
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08-14-2006, 05:22 PM
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