humbucker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Early experiments led to him creating his "Frankenstein guitar" in 1974, fusing the neck and humbucker pickup from a Gibson guitar onto a Fender Stratocaster body.
From Salon
His iconic, road-battered guitar, named Frankenstein, was pieced together to his personal specifications in 1975 from the components of other instruments — a $50 body, a $75 neck, a single Humbucker pickup and crucial tremolo bar.
From Los Angeles Times
Before that, there was no Fender or a Stratocaster-style guitar with a humbucker in it.
From US News
The vintage-guitar market, Miller says, is ridiculous, with castoff instruments selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars to collectors who wouldn’t know a single coil from a humbucker.
From Washington Post
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