An Anniversary worth celebrating! 59th Anniversary of the humbucker!
It’s hard for any guitarist today to imagine what life was like before the Gibson humbucking pickup. So many of the great guitar tones we know and love—Eric Clapton’s legendary “woman” tone, Jimmy Page’s bone-crunching riffs, Angus Young’s mighty power chords—are all the product of that magical combination of magnets, dual coils, adjustable pole pieces, and imagination.
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