For over 50 years, Bigsby Vibratos have been adding the expression that turns good songs into great ones. Original equipment on many of the world’s best selling instruments. Just a few of the companies currently using Bigsby include Gibson®, Epiphone®, Fender®, Gretsch®, Paul Reed Smith®, Squier®, Schecter®, Taylor®, ESP® and many, many more!
The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric...