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March 31, 2006 at 6:41 pm #23065mrblancheMember
A new restaurant opened near our house (Appleby’s), and they have an old guitar on the wall with 4 pickups on it, look like humbuckers that say something like “Pinnacle” or “Supreme” or some such thing. No other ID. Until I can get a photo of it, anyone have any idea what it might be?
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April 14, 2006 at 3:32 am #69242mrblancheMember
Interesting. I guess in perfect condition, it might be worth what someone paid for it back in 1969.
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April 13, 2006 at 9:03 pm #69275glwParticipant
What did I say?
It IS a Teisco.
It’s a Teisco ET-440 from 1969 (otherwise known as the Spectrum 4, hence the name on the pickeps).
http://www.teiscotwangers.com/Images/IDpics/solid-4/69_et-440.jpg
http://www.teiscotwangers.com/
What do I win?
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April 13, 2006 at 7:55 pm #69268mrblancheMember
I tried to photograph whatever might help in identifying it. Clearly, the adjustable bridge is missing. I agree on the formica. The “hold down” for the strings on the headstock might be a clue. And who ever heard of Spectrum pickups?
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April 13, 2006 at 6:07 am #69266lee_UKParticipant
I wonder if it still plays as well as the day it was made?
The neck looks to be made of real wood and then had a formica veneer applied to the headstock, nice colour though. -
April 12, 2006 at 11:05 pm #69270glwParticipant
It looks a bit Teisco-like.
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April 12, 2006 at 9:44 pm #69269USGoldParticipant
Those pups almost remind me of the split pu’s for a Bass, the switches are interesting, is this thing some sort of variation on a mustang?. Too much setting up for my tastes-but rather intriguing anyway.
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April 12, 2006 at 7:41 pm #69273mrblancheMember
Went to the restaurant last night and photographed the thing. Obviously in rough shape, and I may have mispoken about the humbuckers.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e79/mrblanche/1whole.jpg
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April 7, 2006 at 8:17 pm #69248USGoldParticipant
What a nightmare—but I love the Chord roots on the fretboard-bol.
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April 6, 2006 at 9:15 am #692611bassleftParticipant
😆 , Tim – Lee will stop writing nice things about you if you’re not careful. FWIW, I think the Graf Spee was scuttled in parralel ports, a dockyard suburb of Montevideo.
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April 6, 2006 at 3:48 am #69239TimParticipant
Pretty sure I never used ‘Parralel Ports’, sound Spanish?
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April 6, 2006 at 3:04 am #69262lee_UKParticipant
I think you got away with that one bass, anybody remember serial and parralel ports?
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April 5, 2006 at 8:36 am #692291bassleftParticipant
😳 I should’ve typed “series/parallel” but got computeritis and wrote “serial/parallel” instead. We probably got a few hundred hits from Roland git-synth owners. I’m now firmly on the USB list (Useless, stupid etc) 😆
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April 5, 2006 at 4:09 am #69251lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]The Rapier 44 and its upmarket version were pure marketing; to slap a price-tag on. In the same way, if I were to say “oh feckorf Lee” it would be pure knee-jerk reaction to a good ribbing. Someone out there really reads my single/serial/parallel yawnposts and thanks the Lawdy for G-site, Lee. Really, they do.
“Hands up who likes me” (copyright Rik Mayall, Young Ones)[/quote]
My hand is up 😀
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April 4, 2006 at 4:26 pm #69080glwParticipant
I remember when Guitarist magazine was in its infancy, someone sent a photograph into the letters page of their Stratocaster which they had fitted with nine single coil pickups and a whole bank of switches.
I wonder if there is a pic out there of it?
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April 4, 2006 at 10:17 am #691211bassleftParticipant
The Rapier 44 and its upmarket version were pure marketing; to slap a price-tag on. In the same way, if I were to say “oh feckorf Lee” it would be pure knee-jerk reaction to a good ribbing. Someone out there really reads my single/serial/parallel yawnposts and thanks the Lawdy for G-site, Lee. Really, they do.
“Hands up who likes me” (copyright Rik Mayall, Young Ones)
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April 4, 2006 at 5:06 am #69117lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”glw”]http://www.bigroadblues.com/features/spinaltapTRANS.gif%5B/quote%5D
EEEEhhhhhhhhh the old Tuffnel tiger!! well done, who remembers what the dial did?
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April 4, 2006 at 3:36 am #69119TimParticipant
Wow! Can you use them all at once? please, I want a go!!!!
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April 3, 2006 at 11:29 pm #69110
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April 3, 2006 at 10:26 pm #69118USGoldParticipant
If the player would spend so much time fidlin with the controls that He’s (she) never made any music?
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April 3, 2006 at 9:53 pm #69091lee_UKParticipant
The combinations on 4 humbuckers would be endless, i wonder if 1bassleft could have us reaching for an asprin overdose, after his very long and grammaticly correct explaination of all the variations… 😆
No1.
Split coil, out of phase, in phase, 1st humbucker reverse wired in phase but tapped to the first coil of the 3rd humbucker.No2.
Double tapped reversed coil from the…………….. 😯 -
April 3, 2006 at 9:45 pm #69102USGoldParticipant
The only thing I can think of -the only reason for four humbuckers would be if it were a true wired sterio guitar-then you might be creating some sort of weird phase shift or something.
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April 2, 2006 at 1:18 pm #690861bassleftParticipant
I don’t know how it ended up Stateside, but I wonder if it was a Watkins or WEM Rapier 44? Here’s one owned by my e-chum Reg Godwin who masters the http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk site. Is this like it?
http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/images/watkinsrapiers005.jpg
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April 1, 2006 at 6:34 am #69077lee_UKParticipant
Did’nt Nigel Tuffnel have a quad pickup guitar?
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April 1, 2006 at 4:23 am #69079glwParticipant
Not really. There were too many weird and wonderful European, Japanese, Russian, etc, guitars made in the 60s and 70s with 4 pickups. It could be almost anything.
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