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Old 12-19-2016, 08:41 AM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Originally Posted by bassmun View Post
...I have a question regarding a 1940's carved top archtop. I have stumbled across one online that looks really nice, but somewhere along the road one of the owners had added a body mounted humbucker pickup and controls. My question is regarding whether or not the body mounted pickup will affect the acoustic sound of the archtop...
Without question, and although some instruments come out none the worse for it - a good post-war Gibson ES-150 (all-laminated, BTW) could hold its own with many contemporary acoustic archtops - I wouldn't touch it myself...
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