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PG's Rebecca Dirks is On Location in Anaheim, CA, for the 2012 NAMM Show where she visits the Washburn Guitars booth. In this segment, we get to see and hear a demo of Washburn's newest acoustic guitar -- the FLB26SCE Acoustic Bender.

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Forrest Lee Jr on 02/16/2012	This has never been done in a production model... sorry guys. And yes Gene and Joe have made a handful. The mic and the circumstances of the recording, don't do the guitar justice. It really sounds incredible I've been recording with it. But... I just changed strings, and I failed to tune it (the bender) prior to the demo. So as much as it pains me to hear myself out of tune, and the mic not having any bottom end, I have to say I couldn't hear anything when it was recorded, I was playing purely by muscle memory. Trust me, it hurts me more that you to listen to this video! Thanks, Forrest Lee Jr.
Michael on 02/16/2012	I wonder what that would sound like on a guitar that actually sounds good?
Nanook on 01/29/2012	And I thought my Snoopy toothbrush was awesome.!.!.! I'm speachless.
gp7 on 01/28/2012	PLEASE! SOME-body teach that girl how to use a microphone!!
Jim on 01/28/2012	Gene's made them, there was an Ovation on eBay a couple weeks ago with a Glaser -type bender; while it's great there's a production model I have to agree that acoustically the guitar sounds, to put it bluntly, awful. A bluegrass guitar? With no roundness to the tone and no bottom end? Maybe it's the way it was recorded, but it sounds extremely thin ( this opinion from someone who has played bluegrass since '76.). I'd rather put a peg bender on a D-18 or D-28 and play it like a flattop; Speed-bender-Tele playing on an acoustic just isn't my thing. And I''m not sure if it's the guitar or the pull or both that are out of tune, but...yikes...
Jon Fine on 01/27/2012	Chris is correct--Gene's been doing them for years on acoustics, but they've all been custom installations. This is the first time I've seen a bender on a production acoustic. I've got a custom-built Tele-style electric that Gene installed a bender in twenty-some years ago. Great fun, especially if you're a frustrated steel player who can't play steel (like me!)
R2N6A on 01/27/2012	Chris is correct--Gene's been doing them for years on acoustics, but they've all been custom installations. This is the first time I've seen a bender on a production acoustic. I've got a custom-built Tele-style electric that Gene installed a bender in twenty-some years ago. Great fun, especially if you're a frustrated steel player who can't play steel (like me!)
chris on 01/26/2012	Never been done? Gene Parsons has been doing them for years! And tune that bend!
Brian M on 01/26/2012	That sounds terrible!

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