What puts the “wah” in the wah-wah?

Posted on December 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

My latest article for TheWeek.com is really an introduction to acoustic phonetics. But it’s catchier to approach it from the Jimi Hendrix angle…

The science of making a guitar sound like a human voice

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