Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I'm a little surprised you can do tremolo that way on an instrument with 
> frets.  Only a little surprised, mind, but I thought the idea of the frets 
> was to make sure the string length was always the same even if your finger 
> was a bit off.

  If you make a vibrating motion with your finger, it will change the
tension of the string just so slightly, giving you a slight tremolo
effect. Of course it's not as pronounced as you can do eg. on a violin
or other fretless instruments (where the tremolo is not really a question
of changing the tension of the string but its length), but clearly audible
nevertheless (especially if you emphasize it).

  Of course you could also pitch-bend by stretching the string upwards or
downwards, but that's not really a tremolo.

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                                                          - Warp

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