Guitar Triller - slap your bass with a little hammer

[dannybuoy]

Looks pretty cool... Not sure why I need to buy their gadget when I could probably just use a teaspoon or something though!

http://www.guitartriller.com

http://youtu.be/BIbBe5mpuwg

[Cato]

You mean all those hours I spent learning to hit the strings cleanly and quickly with my thumb could have been spent learning to do the same job with a tiny hammer?

I feel such a fool.

[jacko]

I'm tempted to just say WTF! in fact I'm going to ... WTF!!

[Happy Jack]

Y'know, played badly, I reckon that thing would sound just unbelievably sh*t.

[TrevorR]

They should make it from glow in the dark plastic because there's absolutely no chance you'd be scrabbling all over a darkened stage at a gig trying to find it after it flew out from between your fingers...

[Beer of the Bass]

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1472710739' post='3123431']
Tony Levin has been using/marketing these for years. He calls them Funk Fingers.

[url="https://youtu.be/aUjXvAPjO5g"]https://youtu.be/aUjXvAPjO5g[/url]
[/quote]

It's closer to the things they use for hammered dulcimer than to the Funk Fingers. But those have been around even longer! Still, they raised $34,000 on Kickstarter, so I guess somebody must be excited about the idea.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Beer of the Bass

[TrevorR]

http://youtu.be/lpuS7_NPv6U

[ivansc]

Matthew Seligman used a teaspoon back in the late seventies. Cheaper and easy to replace if stolen.
Sounded very nice indeed when he did it.
I sounded like an explosion in a cutlery drawer.....

[Happy Jack]

I'm now thinking about Uri Geller playing bass ...

[barneyg42]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1472759514' post='3124049']
I'm now thinking about Uri Geller playing bass ...
[/quote]

Does he have a bendwell???

[allighatt0r]

Hammered Dulcimer, anyone?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c--oeGNx8Yw[/media]

[Oopsdabassist]

Gorgeous!