I saw E-Bow mentioned in another thread, and looked at on Youtube. I remember years back reading in SOS that Steve Hillage had a selection of dildos in his kit bag. Would apply one against the strings, or run the motor near the pickups for weird effects.
 
Made me wonder how aware guitarist were of this, and what other odd tools could be used.
 
Just also saw in the Omnisphere 2 launch an electric toothbrush being used as an exciter in sound design.
 
 
 
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I saw the technique in "The Story of Anvil". Aside from its showmanship appeal, it's no substitute for an ebow. It might be a suitable substitute for other things, but not an ebow, which works by induction rather than vibration.

I saw that the Ebow doesn't actually touch the string from the video, and guessed it was a vibrator as such. Thought because of that, it would be a different effect. Also possible to vibrate more that one string.
 
Any other weird errm household tools you've seen create interesting effects?

Well, there's the old standby of a violin bow. Jimmy Page used to do that, and I have a number of both Kontakt and Omnisphere samples that do that. Not all of them sound good, though. Although Omnisphere's bowed piano is kinda cool.
 
I have also seen spoons used to hit guitar strings, which produces a bouncy sound similar to that of a hammered dulcimer. I think they used that method on a few Omnisphere samples, too. Must be really hard to hit just one string with a spoon, though.

Sigur Ros make use of a Violin bow too, it fits their music as they often have a 3 piece string group play with them and bridges the sound between the 2.

The Leningrad Cowboys used angle grinders on their live in Helsinki Balalaika DVD. Which added sparks to an already great show.

I have an e-Bow but seriously, would like to try a d****

Cheers,
J

Edit : for them

joakes

I have an e-Bow but need to get a dildo (can serve two purposes, no ?)

Cheers,
J

Very versatile, far more than you'd imagine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HejuE_23iaE

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Drum stick
 
For playing my guitar that is...........