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Floyd D. Rose first started working on what became the Floyd Rose Tremolo in 1976. [3] He was playing in a rock band at the time, inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple.He frequently used the vibrato bar but could not make his guitars stay in tune using traditional approaches like lubricating the nut, or winding the strings as little as possible around the tuning pegs.
Floyd D. Rose (born 1948 [1]) is an American musician and engineer who invented the Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo System in the late 1970s, eventually founding a company of the same name to manufacture and license his products. This double locking system was notable for its ability to stay in tune despite repeated use and wide variations in pitch.
There were three superstrat-styled models, all of which featured the popular Floyd Rose tremolo. The Focus 1000 sported a single slanted humbucker, similar to the Kramer Baretta. The 2000 sported two humbuckers, thus resembling a Kramer Pacer Imperial. The "'3000'" sported a HSS configuration on a Fender Stratocaster-type pickguard.
[vibrato system] Floyd Rose Typical stoptail bridge with Tune-o-matic and stopbar Tune-o-matic with "strings through the body" construction (without stopbar) A stoptail bridge (sometimes also called a stopbar bridge) used on a solid body electric guitar or archtop guitar is a specialized kind of fixed hard-tail bridge.
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Rose had been using Fernandes Guitars of Japan to produce his prototypes, and early and final production tremolo models up until then. Kramer was the only guitar company offering Original Floyd Rose tremolos stock on their production guitars, a competitive advantage of Kramer over other guitar manufacturers of the period.