What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

Its all in the fingers, or is it?

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Olderama wrote:Quote from Steve Vai
" Well before I hit the stage I like to down me a bucket of KFC cus the grease from thems chickens gives me the slippery didgets required to shred away "
Hence the term Finger Lickin Good

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:
Olderama wrote:Quote from Steve Vai
" Well before I hit the stage I like to down me a bucket of KFC cus the grease from thems chickens gives me the slippery didgets required to shred away "
Hence the term Finger Lickin Good

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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So Howlin' Wolf had some pretty big digits as did Albert King and they had some righteous tones.

Angus Young has little girlie hands but I likes his tones!
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Ive often thought whether having skinnier fingers predisposed you to having a more 'trebley' tone - Brian May & Steve Vai being a couple of good examples. Thoughts? In that context that would imply that people with bigger/fatter fingers would have a rounder, darker tone. Thoughts?

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Brian May's trebly tone came from his skinny digits, and not at all from his famously used treble booster... interesting!

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Ive often thought whether having skinnier fingers predisposed you to having a more 'trebley' tone - Brian May & Steve Vai being a couple of good examples. Thoughts? In that context that would imply that people with bigger/fatter fingers would have a rounder, darker tone. Thoughts?
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Thinking about plastic surgery H371?
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:) No - I just thought we needed a break from this Katana hype - it was getting a bit boring.
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All hype dies down around here around 2 weeks after it starts, just be patient :P

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Selling him a bit short aren't you?
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Slowy wrote:
jvpp wrote: H371
Selling him a bit short aren't you?
What's the difference between a digit here or ther? Anyways, there is more tone in the 3 than in the 6!
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H671 wrote::) No - I just thought we needed a break from this Katana hype - it was getting a bit boring.
Agree, especially it is just another Marshall in disguise.
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I like the tone mr slip on fingers Tony Iommi can get. Actually, he's my hero.

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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griff7628 wrote:I like the tone mr slip on fingers Tony Iommi can get. Actually, he's my hero.
Ozzy said that when he was auditioning before he found Randy, lots of the candidates were trying to be Iommi clones. One of them went as far as having thimble type things on two of his fingers.

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