“The e-bow is a small electronic device for playing guitar, and was introduced in 1976, inspired by the mad violin-bowing antics of original Iron Butterfly guitarist Danny Weis. When applied correctly, a sound somewhere between the spacy whistle of a theremin, the slow swell of a guitar looped backward, and that electric violin Poindexter played in *Revenge of the Nerds* is emitted from the ax of y”
