What is a guitar B-Bender?
A B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up by as much as a minor third (three frets). A whole step bend (two frets) is most common.
Are Ovation guitars still made?
In 2014, Fender announced that they were closing the Ovation guitar factory in New Hartford, Connecticut, leaving all production of Ovation guitars overseas.
What is AG bender?
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What is a B-Bender on a guitar?
For the uninitiated, a B-bender is a contraption (the perfect word for it) that lives in- or outside your guitar and allows you to pull—usually with some sort of arm, palm, shoulder or hip movement—your guitar’s B string up a perfect whole step. So, a B note would suddenly become a C# (or a C, if you don’t bend the string all the way).
Is the Bender only for country-style guitar?
Maybe the bender is too strongly associated only with country-style guitar. After all, B-benders have graced the axes of Clarence White, Marty Stuart, Brent Mason, Albert Lee, Ricky Skaggs, Will Ray, Steve Wariner and Diamond Rio’s Jimmy Olander, to name just a few.
How many B-Bender guitar songs are there?
So, to kick things off, and perhaps to best demonstrate what B-benders are all about, we present this guide to 13 (possibly 14; our math isn’t too good) essential B-bender guitar songs.
How do you bend the G string on a guitar?
You bend the G string (the normal way, with your fingers) up a full tone and simultaneously “pull” the B string up a full tone. Or one bend can go up as the other goes down, resulting in contrapuntal bending notes. [ Note: There also are G-benders, not to mention double-benders, that could bend that G for you .] ● Bending a string out of a chord.