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The Stratotone H44 was a "thin body" "Spanish electric" (i. e. electric, as opposed to "Hawaiian electric" lap steel guitars) single-cutaway guitar with a "copper-bronze" finish. The single single-coil pickup in a neck position came with tone and volume controls and a switch between "rhythm" and "lead" characteristics.
The Harmony Company is a former guitar manufacturing company that is currently a brand owned by Singapore-based BandLab Technologies. Harmony was, in its heyday, the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the United States. It made many types of string instruments, including ukuleles, acoustic and electric guitars and violins.
The special original Gibson Firebird humbucking pickup(s) — single, dual or triple — were smaller footprint versions of standard Gibson humbucking pickups, but were unique in that inside each of their smaller bobbins contained an alnico bar magnet (standard humbucking pickups and mini-humbucking pickups have one bar magnet that activates ...
Teisco six-string bass followed an unusual body shape that was used on one of their guitars. It had an off-set body shape similar to a Jazzmaster , but with an extended top horn, a 'monkey handle' cutout on the left-facing side of the bridge and a Fender -style headstock with an oversized scroll.
The maker claims it was the first guitar family able to emulate the tones of other notable electric and acoustic guitars. It also provided a banjo and a sitar tone. The Variax was available primarily in electric guitar models, but acoustic and electric bass guitar models have also been available in the past.
Baroque guitar, c. 1600–1750; bass guitar, with five strings (also often with four or six strings) extended-range electric bass guitar, with five strings (also often with six or occasionally more strings) five-string banjo (also often with four or six strings) six-string guitar with one string removed, often the low "E", and retuned
EMG, Inc. is the current legal name of an American company based in Santa Rosa, California that manufactures guitar pickups and EQ accessories. Among guitar and bass accessories, the company sells active humbucker pickups, such as the EMG 81, [1] the EMG 85, the EMG 60, and the EMG 89. They also produce passive pickups such as the EMG-HZ series ...
His first offering was the "FS-1," a pickup designed to reduce the often shrill nature of stock Stratocaster bridge pickups, and which found an early fan in Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. [ 2 ] Knowing many rock guitarists sought a way to create more distorted tones at lower volumes and without relying on fuzz pedals , DiMarzio released the "Super ...