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humbucker
(redirected from Humbucking pickup)

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humbucker [ˈhʌmˌbʌkə]
n
(Music / Instruments) a twin-coil guitar pick-up


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The package says, "The only guitar string optimized for the humbucking pickup, Gibson Humbucking guitar strings utilize a special composite core wire and a specially formulated wrap wire.
This new guitar body came pre-routed for three single-coil pickups, so Van Halen took up a chisel and soldering iron to install a fat-sounding humbucking pickup from an older semi-hollow body guitar, rotating it slightly to accommodate the wider string spacing of the original Fender bridge.
 
 
 
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