User talk:Tomschryer

Contributions to Vibrato systems for guitar
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you made an edit to Vibrato systems for guitar, which I chose to undo. I partly did this because I think the information about the locking will fit better in the section called "Vibrato system additions", where the Tremol-No and D-Tuna are mentioned. Vibrato systems that allow locking to a non-floating state, e.g. the Steinberger Transtrem, could also be described there.

Secondly I found the section on "Harmony matters" to both have a title that is ill-fitting for an encyclopaedic article, as well as content with poor sources (YT videos are generally discouraged) and un-encyclopaedic claims (e.g. "noticeably more harmonious vibrato" which needs a proper source as well as a description of what "harmonious vibrato" is).

You might find the Five Pillars of Wikipedia a useful resource for further reading on what Wikipedia strives to be and what content fits. Let me know if you have any questions! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 18:07, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Company association?
Hi,

It appears to me that you might be associated with the company that manufactures the ChordBender system, is that so?

Regards, Nettrom (talk) 15:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes. I tried to keep my edits neutral, factual, and inclusive.

I am the Tom Schryer who developed the ChordBender. I did that so I could play a tune I had written that required the accurate bending of 3 different chordal structures. Each chordal structure sounded great when the guitar was tuned to the structure and a slide was used to bend it but that failed the live-performance test. I believe, but have not yet had confirmed, that Jimmy Page used the tuning/slide method to get the only bent chord usage we are aware of in popular music: the "sigh 79" in Zeppelin's Rain Song. He does not play the bend live since the 79 tuning is hostile to playing the rest of the song. In any event, after playing an early prototype in public a few times and getting very positive feedback from guitarists I developed the ChordBender to be a comprehensive solution to over 30 whammy issues I had spotted. My patent is also full of physics equations that were used to get very desirable traits out of the ChordBender - but that seemed way too technical to be of interest to visitors of this particular Wiki page.

Guitar Player Magazine (March, 2012) enthused about the ChordBender:

“In the right hands, it could be a serious game-changer” “Pretty mind-blowing” “Chords melt into each other”

It seemed like time to update the Wiki page.


 * Thanks for clearing that up! You did a pretty good job of keeping your edits in line with what Wikipedia requires.  I struggled a bit to find a good spot for content about the ChordBender in the Vibrato systems for guitar article, but I think having a section about the Steinberger TransTrem and the ChordBender would be a good addition, since both of these systems allow for transposing all six strings.  There's already some content about the TransTrem, but it's spread out across the article.  Hopefully I'll be able to get this done later today.


 * I'm curious about the patent, could you give me the patent number so I can go read it? Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 14:01, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Patent: you can go to http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ and look at patent # 6875911 (scroll down to after the advertisements). That's the patent used by ChordBender. Do control-F and 1/6 to get to a discussion of the physics of a stringed instrument and then how to deal with the problems.

Thanks for you efforts. I get published pretty regularly (in my nerdy math profession) so this process feels familiar.