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04-02-2020, 05:04 AM
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Playing your guitar underneath a ceiling fan
Anyone else ever noticed how when you're playing your guitar right underneath a ceiling fan it affects the tone... The sound coming out of your guitar kind of gets caught in the "vortex" of air being created by the ceiling fan and it makes your guitar sound weird and out of tune.
Happens to me all the time, i put my clip on tuner on thinking my guitar has dropped out of tune. only to find every string is perfect.... 
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04-02-2020, 05:11 AM
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Its not the vortex of wind, but more likely reflected soundwaves off the blades. Haven't you ever talked into a box fan and seen how funny it sounded.
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04-02-2020, 05:11 AM
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I call it "warbling". It's almost like running your guitar through a Leslie speaker cabinet – usually electric guitars. George Harrison did it.
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04-02-2020, 05:34 AM
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04-02-2020, 07:03 AM
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Cheap tremolo. I actively avoid sitting under running ceiling fans to play.
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04-02-2020, 07:12 AM
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We just put in a Oak floor , and without any rugs or furniture -
That also is an amazing tone enhancer - feel bad i have to stain and finish it ( thou thats necessary to protect the floor ) reminds me of when I was a kid and I had the opportunity to play in a all ceramic bathroom- at a school that was a memorable ocassion as well - anything different is fun !
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04-02-2020, 07:16 AM
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Yes. I find singing even stranger. I'd rather sweat than live with the madness.
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04-02-2020, 07:27 AM
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My major concern when playing under a ceiling fan is to remember not to pick my guitar up vertically and inadvertently stick the headstock into the blades path.
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04-02-2020, 07:28 AM
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Yes, I have noticed this. We practice in our living room and there's a ceiling fan directly over me. Playing under the ceiling fan freaks me out though. I'm always afraid I'm going to put the guitar on or take it off without being careful and raise the headstock too high and chop it off!
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04-02-2020, 07:44 AM
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- Glenn
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04-02-2020, 07:44 AM
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It sounds like it could create a cool recording effect...
Actually, Jethro Tull did something sort of similar, on the "Stand Up" album, on the track "A New Day Yesterday." Instead of mic'ing a guitar cabinet in the usual way, an expensive Neumann condenser mic was held by the cable and swung in a circle in front of the amp. The recorded result is pretty neat, but the engineer must have been sweating bullets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq5zTznlSJI
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