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| Jellifish Chorus Guitar Pick | 
 enlarge | Brand: Jellifish
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $7.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1724
Color: blue
Special Features: The Jellifish pick is a different sort of a beast. It is basically a small pick with a bunch of very small metal tines that you drag across the strings on your guitar. The tines are sensitive and must be treated carefully. You can either use it holding the pick parallel with your strings like a normal picks, or you can turn it perpendicular and kind of scrape it across the strings. Using this scraping motion can create a 12 string or chorus like sound on acoustic and electric guitars and can do
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
MPN: JFJF1
Model: JFJF1
UPC: 855236000016
EAN: 0855236000016
ASIN: B0006ZHMXM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Jellifish pick is a different sort of a beast. It is basically a small pick with a bunch of very small metal tines that you drag across the strings on your guitar. The tines are sensitive and must be treated carefully. You can either use it holding the pick parallel with your strings like a normal picks, or you can turn it perpendicular and kind of scrape it across the strings. Using this scraping motion can create a 12 string or chorus like sound on acoustic and electric guitars and can do some cool things when recording.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Not Quite Christ in Pick Form March 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The three instructional/promotional videos on the Jellifish website all conclude with the specious prediction that the Jellifish "may just make guitar picks obsolete."
To anyone with a pulse, this should sound like hyperbole, and with good reason: it is. I can only hope that was the original intent of the statement.
For the uninitiated who happened to stumble upon this page, the Jellifish is a guitar pick that eschews the traditional flat, pointed edge of the traditional plectrum in favor of 18 "tines" of varying length. The idea is that these 18 tines strike each string individually, creating a "chorus" effect akin to a 12-string guitar. As an owner of both a 12-string guitar and a Jellifish pick, I can say that the contrast between the two sounds is stark, the latter being considerably less choruslike. Jellifish promotional material also alleges that the pick can simulate the sound of a bowed instrument and a hammered string, but each of these sounds is roughly as convincing as its 12-string imitation.
What the Jellifish CAN do is provide a warmer, more passive sound. The tines on the Jellifish are thin and delicate (so delicate that the packaging on the back cautions that "[a] feather-like touch is recommended when using the Jellifish"), and produce a mildly different, less abrasive sound than a normal pick -- however, the difference is subtle, to be sure. The other thing that the Jellifish offers is a sweeping sound that provides a nice additional percussive effect to the strumming and plucking of strings, but could also be seen as pretty irritating.
Overall, the marketing of the Jellifish grossly exaggerates the potential of the poor thing. I paid $10 for it in the hopes that it would sound significantly different from any other pick I'd ever used. Anyone who pays that price for a Jellifish, with the same hopes that I had, will probably be decidedly underwhelmed. Regardless, it DOES have some actual token uses. However, it seems fair to say that the Jellifish is not going to be supplanting the regular old pick anytime soon.
 Make your own - save $10! October 1, 2007
There was some mention here about what these looked like... little pieces of guitar strings. If you play guitar, and invariably you do if you're reading these comments, you will have changed your strings right? Well, get yourself a little pair of wire cutters, a gas stove (or other appropriate heat source), and a big, thick guitar or bass pick. Cut some old strings about 1.5 inches long, heat the end in a flame and melt them into your newly purchased guitar pick. It takes some doing, but the end result is the same... and much cheaper than $10.
DO NOT BUY August 13, 2007
The jellifish breaks easily even if you are careful and read the instructions. It is so delicate it is rendered nearly unusable and is therefore impractical.
Its metal tines could also easily scratch the finish on your expensive guitar whether your finish is wood or metal. It is an interesting idea but it really should be made with stiff plastic tines, or if metal the tines should be made with tougher material that won't break, but how could they sell more then?
Buena, pero... June 20, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tiene su tecnica, es de uso delicado. Buen sonido pero muy fragil, por lo que la relacion precio/valor no es la adecuada. La compraria otra vez si bajan el costo. No sustituye el sonido de una 12 cuerdas, aunque si incrementa el brillo de una de 6.
A Cleverly (But Misleadingly) Marketed Piece of Junk June 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wish I had read the reviews here before dropping the 10 bucks. Feels like playing with a hacksaw blade. Esteban should be selling this thing on infomercials. Cheesh.
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