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 | | The pitch bend arm found on many electric guitars has also had slang terms applied to it, such as "tremolo bar", "whammy handle" or "whammy bar". |
| | The latter two slang terms led stompbox manufacturers to use the term 'whammy' in coming up with a pitch raising effect introduced by popular guitar brand "Digitech". |
| | Interestingly, Leo Fender, who did so much to revolutionize the modern electric guitar, also created much confusion over the meaning of the terms "tremolo" and "vibrato", specifically by mis-naming the "tremolo" bar on his guitars and also regarding the "Vibrolux" amps. |
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