bobouz
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A number of years later, a fellow who put the unique strumming characteristics of the Everly Brothers model to very good use was Cat Stevens, who took full advantage of the instrument's abilities in both soft and forceful passages - sometimes within the same song, as in Father & Son.The Everly Bros. Model had only one distinctly different part; the bridge. It was designed to the brother's specifications. The bridge lacks pins, and was designed to increase the guitars sustain while killing some of its volume.
This bridge allowed them a very fast string change when a string broke onstage, and the sustain allowed them to put more effort into their singing than their strumming. Very good for their slow ballads and love songs.
And when they rocked out, they could get really physical with their guitars and their singing wouldn't be over-powered with the forceful strumming's volume.