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    mrblanche
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    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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    • #69242
      mrblanche
      Member

      Interesting. I guess in perfect condition, it might be worth what someone paid for it back in 1969.

    • #69275
      glw
      Participant

      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?

    • #69268
      mrblanche
      Member

      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?

    • #69266
      lee_UK
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      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.

    • #69270
      glw
      Participant

      It looks a bit Teisco-like.

    • #69269
      USGold
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      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.

    • #69273
      mrblanche
      Member

      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

      #http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e79/mrblanche/body.jpg

      #http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e79/mrblanche/neck.jpg

    • #69248
      USGold
      Participant

      What a nightmare—but I love the Chord roots on the fretboard-bol.

    • #69261
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😆 , 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.

    • #69239
      Tim
      Participant

      Pretty sure I never used ‘Parralel Ports’, sound Spanish?

    • #69262
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I think you got away with that one bass, anybody remember serial and parralel ports?

    • #69229
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😳 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) 😆

    • #69251
      lee_UK
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      [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 😀

    • #69080
      glw
      Participant

      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?

    • #69121
      1bassleft
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      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)

    • #69117
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [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?

    • #69119
      Tim
      Participant

      Wow! Can you use them all at once? please, I want a go!!!!

    • #69110
      glw
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    • #69118
      USGold
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      If the player would spend so much time fidlin with the controls that He’s (she) never made any music?

    • #69091
      lee_UK
      Participant

      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…………….. 😯

    • #69102
      USGold
      Participant

      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.

    • #69086
      1bassleft
      Participant

      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

    • #69077
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Did’nt Nigel Tuffnel have a quad pickup guitar?
      Still the best rock spoof film ever made.

    • #69079
      glw
      Participant

      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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