Gibsonin sivuilta kopsattua.
"By the 1950s Ted McCarty, an engineer by training, was president of Gibson, and McCarty assigned Walt Fuller and Seth Lover the task of designing a pickup that would not be prone to "humming" in the presence of transformers, rheostats and other electrical interference. Lover began work in 1954 and a year later filed a patent application for a pickup that utilized two coils to cancel or "buck" the hum. A triple-coil "humbucker" appeared on a electric steel guitar in 1956, and the double-coil version debuted in 1957 on the Les Paul Custom and Standard in 1957. The PU-490, as the pickup was officially named, featured twin coils wired in parallel and out-of-phase, adjustable pole screws on one coil and German silver metal covers to resist outside electrical interference. Although the patent was granted in 1959, Gibson's humbuckers bore a small decal on the bottom baseplate with the words "Patent Applied For" until mid-1962. Gibson humbuckers from that early era (1957 to 1962) command princely sums in the vintage guitar market today, and in the eyes of knowledgeable players, they remain the Holy Grail of pickups." If the tool we have is
a hammer, make the problem look like a nail. |
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