# Guitarists-- what does the whammy bar do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-what-does-the-whammy-bar-do/519209 "2009-11-28T05:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-what-does-the-whammy-bar-do/519209/21 "2009-11-29T22:20:51Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Hmmm…I don’t hear anything at 1:16 or near it that sounds much different than the guitar going on in the rest of the song. No whammy bar stuff I can hear that. What sound are you talking about exactly? Okay, I did have the timestamp wrong. The guitar makes an interesting diving drone type of sound from 1:13-1:16. I can also hear a similar effect on R.E.M.'s “Get Up” from the _Green_ album. If anyone has it (YouTube only has live versions) it happens around 0:57-1:01. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-what-does-the-whammy-bar-do/519209/22 "2009-11-30T14:12:48Z")
> [@LoraHup](#): > > What if it makes schools more corrupt generally, for example if teachers start cheating and giving over-generous marks to their students, or merely spoon-feed the curriculum to the students rather than making them learn in a more honest and truer way? See, now that’s just a little too guitar-insider talk for me. 😉 …for a sec there, I throught the post was referring to the Hot for Teacher video… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitarists-what-does-the-whammy-bar-do/519209.md?page=1)