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Floyd Rose, an Uncommon card
The Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo, or simply Floyd Rose, is a type of locking vibrato arm for a guitar.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Floyd Rose quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Floyd Rose card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Floyd D. Rose invented the ______ vibrato in 1976, the first of its kind, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name.
Answer
locking. Floyd D. Rose invented the locking vibrato in 1976, the first of its kind, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name. From the Floyd Rose article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Parliament Hill. Parliament Hill 54,000 · Floyd Rose 40,000 · Kathleen Scott 27,000 · Charles Alston 11,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Floyd D. Rose invented the locking vibrato in 1976, the first of its kind, and it is now manufactured by a company of the same name.
- The Floyd Rose gained popularity in the 1980s through guitarists like Eddie Van Halen, Neal Schon, Brad Gillis, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Mick Mars, and Alex Lifeson, who used its ability to stay in tune even with extreme changes in pitch.
- Its tuning stability comes through the double-locking design that has been widely regarded as revolutionary, the design has been listed on Guitar World's "10 Most Earth Shaking Guitar Innovations" and Guitar Player's "101 Greatest Moments in Guitar History 1979–1983."
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Floyd Rose article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Floyd Rose
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Floyd Rose (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. GreyCat assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
