Vibrato Unit - True Vibrato

True Vibrato

Guitarists do also produce true vibrato in many different ways, including:

• As finger vibrato similar to that produced by movement of the left hand on the violin and other stringed instruments.
• By use of the vibrato arm provided (by whatever name) on many electric and some acoustic guitars.
• By manipulating the tailpiece of an archtop guitar not fitted with a tremolo arm, normally with the right hand. This is particularly a jazz and blues technique.
• By manipulating the strings between the head nut and machine heads. This is particularly used on open strings of a bass guitar.
• By use of effects units such as flangers, phasers and chorus effects, that are able to modulate the pitch rather than just the volume.
• By use of moving loudspeaker and/or moving loudspeaker baffle systems such as the Leslie speaker.
• By use of the motor-driven Kaufman Vibrato tailpiece built-in to some early Rickenbacker guitars, and similar units.

In common with all other musicians, all guitarists from classical to rock use the term vibrato to describe finger vibrato.