Hi y'all...I just acquired a near mint 1962 Epiphone Riviera, stickered mini-PAF pickups and has the Tremotone "E" vibrato tailpiece. I don't use a whammy so I removed the bar and put it away for safe keeping. I then re-strung the tailpiece to make it act more like a standard trapeze by reversing the direction that the strings are inserted into the tailpiece. This has a couple advantages, most importantly increasing the angle and tension of the string as it crosses the tuneomatic bridge piece. Bending relatively light guage strings with the routinely-strung Tremotone can cause the string to pop out of the saddle slot. Another advantage is the revised stringing approach reduces the overall string length. Using a Tremotone can be problematic for standard string lengths for the "D" and "G" strings...eace2
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