![]() Tennesseestyle glissandos (played most likely on his Framus Humbug). Gone but not forgotten, because whenever I feel like it I can limber up my pinky and let the tremolo kick in for a nifty doppelganger effect. An electric guitar chord, played either with volume pedal or by means of the. By that time the Orgeltone was also history. The effect is a lot like an onboard Hammond organ! Orgeltone! It takes a little practice and coordination, but once mastered it’s a pretty cool low-tech engineering effect.įramus guitars thrived as low-cost alternatives in the US until cheaper Japanese guitars and higher European labor costs phased them out. ![]() As you picked the strings, you curled your pinky up and down to modulate the volume downward (reverse). The spigot was simply a hefty hook that you wrapped your right pinky around. Can’t have too many of those! Basically the spigot was a volume pot that was reverse wired and spring loaded. Then of course there was a master volume and three tone controls, with separate on-off switches to bypass tone controls on the neck and bridge pickups.īut best of all was the spigot, known officially as the ‘Orgeltone,’ or Organ Tone, a manual tremolo with, of course, its own on-off switch. Powered with three fat single-coil pickups, each operated by its own sliding on-off switch. 1963 Framus Television 5/118 Electric Guitarīut the main attraction of Framus guitars was under the hood, in the electronics.
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