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What is a floating tremolo?

I came by this comment on justinguitar:

"DON'T BUY AN ELECTRIC WITH A FLOATING TREMELO WHEN YOU START OUT.

They are a total pain in the butt, very hard to tune and a real pain to change strings. The cheaper ones go out of tune a lot too. If you spend more, and know why you want one, then fine, but locking tremelos on budget instruments are usually rubbish."

My question is. What is a floating tremolo? I never heard it.

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Just a little something about tremelo's
A project I was gonna get involved in to build 10 units for this man.
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Just a little something about tremelo's
A project I was gonna get involved in to build 10 units for this man.
Interesting project and tooling. Unfortunately our quote was a little more than he wanted to spend on development. I still have all the details of the machined parts.

John Yost

Pretty cool idea. It looks like it could sell.


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