deefstes wrote
Sebber wroteLike my Muddy Waters Tele. I've got a wayward strumming hand that permanently knocks the Tele pickup selector switch so I reversed the control plate and swapped the Volume and Tone pots round, much easier for violining and downright impossible to change pickups by mistake.
OK, my turn, what is "violining" please?
Violining is the timeless art of hammering on a note when you guitar's volume is all the way down, then, while you keep the note fretted, quickly max the volume knob on the guitar: it sounds sort of violin-like because you don't get any of the usual attack you get when picking a string. If you're quick on the guitar's volume control you can play whole solos like this. It sounds best with some distortion/overdrive and some reverb or echo.
Typically I find violining easiest on Strats, but if you reverse the control plate on a Tele like mine then the guitar's volume control is much easier to access with your picking hand.
