GEAR REVIEW
[ GET A GRIP ON YOUR BIGSBY WITH PALM-O-LOW | Eric Dahl ]
KEY FEATURES
Ergonomic Fit
Easy Installation
Trem-O-Adapter for guitars without
a Bigsby tremolo
and the tremolo arm. The business partners
The adapter will fit any vintage style bridge
at Tremolution Ltd. had the same challenges
(except Floyd Rose or other locking systems)
as the rest of us but instead of complaining
that could benefit from a center pivot instead
or blocking the tremolo like a hardtail, they
of a side one that tends to throw strings out
invented an alternative.
of tune. The two allen head bolts allow you to
secure the Trem-O-Adapter on your guitar in
The original Palm-O-Low is a contoured tremolo
a few minutes and it comes with the Palm-O-
arm designed to replace
Low or Custom tremolo arm as part of the unit.
the OEM arm that comes
I installed the adapter to an older GSC guitar of
with a Bigsby tremolo. The
mine that I could never find a tremolo arm to fit.
shape of the Palm-O-Low is
The adapter worked great and looks like it was
designed to ergonomically
made for the guitar if you didn’t know better!
fit your hand so that your
palm rests in it to leave your
The Palm-O-Low is available on Amazon but
picking finger free instead of
all other Tremolution products are only available
grasping a tremolo arm. It
direct at their website www.Tremolution.com
also has the ability to swing
at this time. The original Palm-O-Low sells for
out over your guitar strings
$39.95 ($59.95 with the Trem-O-Adapter), the
more easily so that you can
Custom Tremolo arm goes for $24.95 ($49.95
achieve subtle vibrato while
with the Trem-O-Adapter). Bigsby’s have always
playing. The review unit was
oozed a cool element to me thanks to so many
placed on one of my electric
big name players using them from Lonnie
guitars and the retrofit arm
Mack, Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins and Brian
only took about ten minutes
Setzer to name a few. It’s great that a small
to install. You can definitely
company like Tremolution has stepped forward
nail the Chris Isaac sound
to provide us with some options for a product
with this and it was much
that has basically gone unchanged since Paul
easier to use than the typical
Bigsby invented it. The metal construction and
bar that comes with a Bigsby.
fit and finish on the Tremolution products are
The only thing that felt a little
top notch and does not give the appearance
awkward in the beginning is
or feel of a retrofit to the Bigsby. Since testing
that the arm is over the top of
these out I have introduced several other Bigsby
the strings and it feels much
fanatics to them as an alternative. These are
closer to them than a factory
prime examples of a, “Why didn’t I think of that
arm.
moment”. A new product that can spice up our
tremolo playing relatively cheap!
Tremolution’s next offering is
Vibrato is not easy for many guitarists to achieve
the Custom tremolo arm which is longer like a
with their hands alone, this is the reason that
standard Bigsby arm but it is curved in towards
a mechanized metal tremolo unit was created
the strings at the middle and away at the top so
to attach to a guitar and provide this wavering
it doesn’t interfere with your picking. Both the
sound. But, no matter who the manufacturer
Palm-O-Low and Custom Tremolo arms can be
is, it is very easy to achieve too much vibrato
installed on a Bigsby trem or ordered with their
or not enough depending upon the spring
new Trem-O-Adapter.
$39.95 Palm-O-Low
($59.95 with the Trem-O-Adapter)
$24.95 Custom Tremolo Arm
($49.95 with the Trem-O-Adapter)
tension, tension of the strings, the pivot points
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Sep Oct 2016
ChristianMusician.com
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