I saw a guitar player last night (from a bit of a distance) that was bending notes within a chord like I think you can do on pedal steels. It was a Tele, and there may be some sort of mechanism on the bridge (not a whammy bar). I recall some sort of mechanism like this, but can't remember the name or how it may work or whether I just may have been hallucinating (I swear he wasn't bending them with his left hand fingers, the way I incompetently try to do).
-Mystified
Must be. Although I didn't see all that mechanism in the back (must also come in black), there was that round thing on the front behind the bridge near the b-string. Thanks a lot! googling "bridge note bending thing" was getting me nowhere.
Hipshot is what I heard of before. The guitar player was great too, Grant Siemens from a band called Corb Lund and the hurtin Albertins, Cheers
It's called a B-bender ... I'm assuming that's CFbender's link took you.
-=tension & release=-
b bender for sure. MusicMan makes an Albert Lee model. it is a significant part of Lees style.
by dipping the headstock you bend the B string.
here's a great demo vid of the b-bender in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sijFOoeo9Y&mode=related&search=
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