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Coined the Grabber 3 '70s Tribute Bass, this instrument borrows heavily from the visual aesthetic of the original G-3 while also retaining the "buck-and-a-half" pickup combination, albeit with modern Alnico V single coil pickups as opposed to the Bill Lawrence models used in the original; as well as having a more traditional pickup layout, as ...
A three way switch was added to the control scheme so that the pickups could be activated as humbucking pairs; neck & middle, bridge & middle, or all three in humbucking configuration for the so-called "buck and a half". Although very similar, the Grabber and G3 have different and unique sounds which led players to prefer one over the other.
This is a list of Gibson brand of stringed musical instruments, mainly guitars, manufactured by Gibson, alphabetically by category then alphabetically by product (lowest numbers first). The list excludes other Gibson brands such as Epiphone.
In the 1950s, Gibson also produced the Tune-o-matic bridge system and its version of the humbucking pickup, the PAF ("Patent Applied For"), first released in 1957 and still sought after for its sound. [citation needed] In 1958, Gibson produced two new designs: the eccentrically shaped Explorer and Flying V. These "modernistic" guitars did not ...
Gibson G3; Gibson Grabber; Gibson Les Paul bass; R. Gibson Ripper; T. Gibson Thunderbird; V. Gibson Victory Bass This page was last edited on 14 January 2012, at 22: ...
Tune-o-matic (also abbreviated to TOM) is the name of a fixed or floating bridge design for electric guitars. It was designed by Ted McCarty (Gibson Guitar Corporation president) and introduced on the Gibson Super 400 guitar in 1953 and the Les Paul Custom the following year. [1] In 1955, it was used on the Gibson Les Paul Gold Top. It was ...
Gibson produced a Townshend Signature model SG based on the guitar he played at Woodstock in August, 1969. The Townsend model was a limited edition and was discontinued by Gibson in 2003. [164] In 2006 the Gibson Custom Shop started production of three different Les Paul signature models [165] based on the guitars he played in the late 1970s ...
Half-Bridge can refer to: A single-direction configuration of an H-Bridge motor controller; A form of DC to DC converter switched-mode power supply. One of a pair of devices that connect to perform the Bridging (networking) function of a computer network