I think this was touched on briefly before but...
I'd been struggling to improve my playing since buying an Etherwave about 8 months ago, and after giving up for a while came back to it and suddenly discovered a huge improvement by playing with my right hand on the case.
With my middle finger brushing very lightly on the case in a straight line about an inch in form the back and my little finger extended straight out as a "cutting edge" perpendicular to the pitch antenna, I get a very playable three octave range ( plus a few notes either way). Holding a sustained note is much easier and more accurate and violin like vibratto effects can be made much more accurately than with an aerial technique.
I wonder how many of you more seasoned players use this technique. Any opinions as to pros and cons ?
I must admit that oddly it feels like cheating somehow, and it ceratinly doesn't look as fancy !
Also I rather like an etherwave pro one day but I doubt I'd be able to play it in the same way given its shape.
I'd been struggling to improve my playing since buying an Etherwave about 8 months ago, and after giving up for a while came back to it and suddenly discovered a huge improvement by playing with my right hand on the case.
With my middle finger brushing very lightly on the case in a straight line about an inch in form the back and my little finger extended straight out as a "cutting edge" perpendicular to the pitch antenna, I get a very playable three octave range ( plus a few notes either way). Holding a sustained note is much easier and more accurate and violin like vibratto effects can be made much more accurately than with an aerial technique.
I wonder how many of you more seasoned players use this technique. Any opinions as to pros and cons ?
I must admit that oddly it feels like cheating somehow, and it ceratinly doesn't look as fancy !
Also I rather like an etherwave pro one day but I doubt I'd be able to play it in the same way given its shape.