Talk:Guitar/Slide Guitar

Use of a battery
"a battery can work to get a good sound"

Is this a safe technique to use on a steel stringed instrument? I'm not versed in slide guitar, but I can imagine if precautions are not taken one could quite easily short the battery through the strings and across the bridge. 81.106.113.213 20:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

A battery makes a passable slide. To short-circuit the battery one would have to touch both terminals to the string at once. This is practically impossible in the case of a cylindrical battery, and highly unlikely in the case of a cuboidal 9V battery. In any case the use of a flat battery would further reduce the danger of a short circuit.

slide
The term "slide" more commonly refers to a bar used in an overhand style of playing, than to a tube. The tube is often referred to as a "bottleneck" even when not made of glass.