NAMM '12 - Washburn Guitars FLB26SCE Acoustic Bender Demo

http://www.premierguitar.com PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location in Anaheim, CA, for the 2012 NAMM Show where she visits the Washburn Guitars booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear a demo of Washburn's newest acoustic guitar -- the FLB26SCE Acoustic Bender.

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[iBrows1]

Cool idea, but in this demo most of the bending kinda sounds out of tune..

[ZepIV]

I like it! Innovation keeps the guitar world moving - even if that means ideas that aren't... "appealing" to everyone

[superskwrl]

@RandallRocker It's harder to bend on an acoustic string than an electric string.

[RandallRocker]

@superskwrl how would it fail? the B -Bender bends the B string and you are incorrect about bending on an acoustic If you do not use some real heavy gunge strings you can surely bend well on a acoustic I do all the time. And No I do not use some super light strings maybe its because Ive been playing 30 years heck I don't know what do I know I just own a B -Bender haha and Im a 80's metal guy..

[RandallRocker]

@rrrrockin I would agree to a certain point B-Bender 101 is simple you use it when appropriate in the video Forrest is just overdoing to show the capabilities of the guitar if you are not into the Nashville Genre you probably would not appreciate it... I have a Blue Paisley B -Bender built by Forrest I go days without using the B -Bender just depends it sure does open some real interesting possibilities I mean you can play the conventional Nashville steel pedal licks or haha do some crazy stuff

[RandallRocker]

Forrest is one awesome guy he built me a custom Blue Paisley Tele impeccable quality besides for building guitars check out his Telathon CD he is one hell of a musician...

[DMSProduktions]

He's a BENDER! ;oP

[rrrrockin]

interesating ,not crazy about it ,,i think it would be combersome and repetitive irritating string ,,just my opinion 

[superskwrl]

This product fails because its a lot harder to bend an acoustic string than an electric string.

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

It's a very interesting little innovation. I like how you have to move the guitar to bend it. It makes any motions you do with it feel and look very natural, which I haven't seen with new and recent guitars when they have new "innovations" put into them.

[Sweetychick85]

@lUvmUzakkkxoxoxjklol Darn! I forgot about the prison cells, where's my head at?

[guitarjoshie]

don't bend it? do you ever listen to bluegrass? tony rice, ron block, sean watkins, doc watson, mearle travis... come on... they all bend.

beyond that, forrest is the man. the end!!

congratulations forrest for having the balls to be a pioneer!!!

and congratulations to all the people that understand the guitar is out of tune. next year in 4th grade you can learn about ambient noise.