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SnakeSanders avatar SnakeSanders

Hummbucking, Part 2

April 30, 2012

What does mean "Hummbucking" word? Never meat it anywhere

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  1. StuartSlate avatar StuartSlate

    RE: Hummbucking, Part 2

    April 30, 2012

    SnakeSanders wrote:
    What does mean "Hummbucking" word? Never meat it anywhere


    A humbucker is a type of electric guitar pick-up invented in the face of the single coil electric guitar pick-up that 'hummed', or, in other words, made an unwanted sound, especially when a guitar's single coil pick-up volume was elevated. They HUMMED. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Thus, a humbucker literaly bucks (anti) hum.

    Billy's Pearly Gates 1959 Gibson Les Paul is equipped with 'humbucker' electric guitar pick-ups. (as are many, many other electric guitars)

  2. Craigo avatar Craigo

    RE: Hummbucking, Part 2

    April 30, 2012

    Spot on Stuart, Pretty much any guitar pickup, which looks like 2 joint together is a Humbucker. The others are single coils. Some Gibsons have covers over them, but they're still humbuckers.

    Cheers Craigo
    Craigo

  3. SnakeSanders avatar SnakeSanders

    Re: Hummbucking, Part 2

    May 13, 2012

    I know what is "humbucker".
    Double "M" misled me.

    Thanks for answers.

  4. StuartSlate avatar StuartSlate

    Re: Hummbucking, Part 2

    May 14, 2012

    SnakeSanders wrote:
    I know what is "humbucker".
    Double "M" misled me.

    Thanks for answers.



    Sorry man, I didn't mean to embarrass you. Don't worry about it anyway. I have been using English my whole life and I don't understand the language either!

  5. Joe Halstead avatar Joe Halstead

    Re: Hummbucking, Part 2

    June 30, 2012

    Darn, I was really hoping the song meant something else, cause it would have been more fun that way....I don't see the motivation to celebrate what is actually an archaic invention so much...."definitely somethin everybody WUSH for" lol... really?