Abstract: An improved vibrato device for an electric guitar that includes a lever passing from the bridge assembly down through the guitar body front surface and extending toward the neck and then upwardly through the guitar front surface within convenient reach of a musician's picking hand. The lever may be operatively coupled with a controller that enables the musician to better synchronize the vibrato effect during playing with other desired effects, such as volume changes, phase changes and effects produced by Musical Instrument Digital Instrument (MIDI) devices.