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| | Shouldn't this have been posted into the Guitar Gear forum? I borrowed a friend's eBow, and I thought it sucked. It does take a bit of practice to get the right "touch" to it, though. The best results I got were by using it combined with some screamin' overdrive, which was cool! I couldn't get the cello sound I was hoping for, though. The main thing I noticed is that there's a slight delay to its response, sometimes sounding as though there's a reverse effect running. It's a bit fun and interesting, however. I definitely wouldn't pay the full $80 price tag for it.
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| I believe the delay Dulcimerist mentioned is an inherent function of the way the ebow works. Unlike similar devices, such as the Fernandes sustainer, which, because they're connected to the guitar's pickups, know what frequency to drive the strings at, the eBow has to find it by trial and error, hence the delay before it starts "bowing" the strings.
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| | Yeah - The eBow never even touches the strings. It uses an electromagnetic field to vibrate the steel in your strings. You have to be pretty spot-on over the string to get it to work. This isn't something that you can rapidly riff with, string to string; but it's cool for slow ballads. Iron Butterfly initiated the development of the eBow, which adds a lot to the coolness factor of this. The ones they make today work much better than the old '70s prototypes.  If you're a guitar legend like Phil Keaggy, you can do some insanely cool things with it, though!!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Wd9EVHUJI
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| Exactly. But for the ebow to drive the strings effectively, it helps to have a good idea of what frequency they're vibrating at. The Fernandes sustainer uses the second pickup for just this purpose. Now, the eBow wouldn't necessarily have to know the frequency, but it would be able to "pick up" and drive the strings much more readily if it did.
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| In other words, the eBow would be much more efficient if it utilized Tesla's principles of resonance.  Now I suddenly have the urge to borrow my friend's eBow again, trying it at different harmonic points along various strings...
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