Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Annie Clark – better known as St. Vincent ... “My guitar is similar in spirit, except when you dive bomb on the whammy bar, it stays in tune.

St. Vincent stood onstage in an archway ... During “Sweetest Fruit,” a song about loss, she fired off a speedy guitar solo with some whammy bar action. “Broken Man” — “On the street ...

Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) has constantly reinvented herself as a musician and an artist. Now she’s reinventing the guitar itself ... Ernie Ball Music Man tremolo, gunstock oil, and hand ...

Speaking to Guitar, St Vincent, aka Annie Clark ... “What I love about that guitar is that it was super-light, and the whammy bar on it was really unique,” she said. “So that was another guitar ...

Carl Verheyen knows a thing or two about guitar playing ... wide intervals and whammy-bar bends stun all those who hear them. So we asked him to discuss and play some of his favorite whammy ...