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The mini-humbucker is a humbucking guitar pickup (used in electric guitars). It was originally created by the Epiphone company . The mini-humbucker resembles a Gibson PAF humbucker , but is narrower in size and senses a shorter length of string vibration. [ 1 ]
Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty plays a Natural finish Sheraton with Mini Humbuckers, and an Elitist Series Cherry finish Sheraton with Mini Humbuckers with Vibrato. Jens Lekman plays a sunburst Sheraton II. Scott Thurston of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Shimon Moore (ex-frontman) of Sick Puppies plays an ebony Epiphone Sheraton II.
The EB-3 had a "mini-humbucker" at the bridge position. Gibson basses tended to be instruments with a shorter 30.5" scale length than the Precision. Gibson did not produce a 34-inch (864 mm)-scale bass until 1963 with the release of the Thunderbird. [33] The first commercial fretless bass guitar was the Ampeg AUB-1, introduced in 1966. [34]
The Gibson Les Paul was the first guitar to use humbuckers in large-scale production. Over the following decades, variants of practically every type of electric guitar have also been equipped with humbuckers, even types which are traditionally associated with single-coil pickups, like Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters.
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 ...
The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Queen's guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, when Brian was a teenager in the early 1960s. [1] [2] The Red Special is sometimes referred to as the Fireplace or the Old Lady by May and by others. [3]
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The original and top-of-the-line model, [13] made in the USA, [14] the guitar featured an arched (carved) top, body binding, two knobs (volume and tone), three-way pickup toggle switch, two Peavey/EVH-designed humbucker pickups, oil-finished bird's eye maple neck and fingerboard with dual graphite reinforcement rods, ten-degree tilt headstock ...