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Titolo: Questo per dire che non me le lego al dito - Humbuckers

Tutto ciň viene dal sito Seymour Duncan, e se lo dice lui io tenderei a
crederci (non so se qualcuno ricorda, ma c'era un tizio che sosteneva che
gli humb non erano nati apposta per eliminare il rumore di fondo...)
Father of the Humbucking Pickup
Seth E. Lover, 1910 - 1997
For Immediate Release
Monday, February 03, 1997
Contact: Evan Skopp
Seymour Duncan
(805) 964-9610
Fax: 
(805) 964-9749
E-mail: 
ev...@seymourduncan.com
Santa Barbara, California - Two weeks to the day after his final appearance
at the National Association of Music Merchants show, Seth E. Lover, inventor
of the humbucker pickup, passed away. He was 87.
Before Lover, electric guitarists were forced to cope with the pesky
60-cycle hum inherent in single coil pickups. It was in the mid-'50s, while
working as an amplifier designer at Gibson Guitars, that Lover figured out
how to wire two coils electrically out of phase and with reversed magnetic
polarities. The effect was to cancel the hum before it reached the amp and
the result was the birth of the humbucking pickup.
Lover applied for the patent on the humbucking pickup in 1955 and it was
finally granted in 1959 (U.S. 2,896,491). During this five-year period,
Gibson adhered a "Patent Applied For" sticker to the underside of their
humbucker pickups. These "P.A.F." pickups are the most collectable and
desirable pickups today, fetching upwards of $1,000 each among vintage
guitar collectors.
While working under Ted McCarty at Gibson, Lover was also involved in guitar
design. He liked to tell how he helped contribute to the design of the
famous "Flying V." Lover said that he thought up the design as a way to lean
the guitar against a wall without it tipping over.
Lover worked for Gibson from 1952 to 1967 as a design engineer. In 1967, he
transferred to Fender Musical Instruments where he worked until 1975 as a
project engineer. In addition to his two Gibson patents, he authored three
more at Fender -- two for loudspeaker cabinets and one for an electric piano
pickup. He retired to the Southern California town of Garden Grove where he
lived quietly with Lavone, his wife of 59 years.
Seymour W. Duncan, known industry-wide as the guitar pickup guru, considered
Lover his "humbucker mentor." The two were associated for nearly 20 years.
In 1994, Seymour and Seth Lover joined forces to release the Seth Lover
ModelT pickup, an authentic re-creation of the "Patent Applied For"
humbucker. After numerous full-page ads, NAMM show appearances, and magazine
interviews, Seth became a minor celebrity - at age 84!
Seth always maintained a quick wit and a keen sense of humor. He was once
heard joking that on his birth certificate, under the section marked
"father's name," it merely said, "Lover!" During his final years, Seth was a
regular member of the Seymour Duncan NAMM-team. He loved to hold court in
the Duncan booth answering questions and signing autographs, always with
Lavone at his side.
Seth Lover died on January 31, 1997 after a brief illness. Born in
Kalamazoo, Michigan on New Years Day, 1910, Seth is survived by Lavone, his
two sons Robert and Gene, and three grandchildren.

 gli humb non erano nati apposta per eliminare il rumore di fondo...)
C'è invece un tizio che, tutt'ora, non ha ancora capito una beneamata
mazza... Vero Luca? :-)
Dici a me quando ti riferisci al 'tizio'? Parrebbe di si... Peccato. 
Un vero peccato che tu non sia stato attento quando era ora, ovvero 
quando nacque la discussione, evitando così un lungo flame. Perchè ti
saresti accorto che io non ho MAI negato che fossero nati per 
quello... Ma non c'è peggior sordo di chi non vuol capire, visto che 
allora volevate solo flammare. Dico bene? Già, perchè se dai 
un'occhiatina qui 
http://x30.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=566607628&CONTEXT=954977897.401211399
noterai la frase "Nessuno mette in dubbio che in origine sia stato 
ideato per ovviare ai problemi di rumore dei single coil...". Ma che 
vedo... Rispondevo proprio a te. Ma dove avevi la testa? Tra le 
braccia di M...za?
-- 
Guitar's amplifier page at 
http://provocation.8m.com


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