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RE: [SurfGuitar101] Re: coil tapping

Brian Neal (xarxas) - 27 Sep 2003 18:15:39

> I have had several coil tapped guitars. Basically, two wires are
> wrapped around the magnetic posts, one less wraps than the other. This
> basically gives two different impedances for the pickup. It's an
> attempt to add a single coil type of tone to a humbucker.
Coil tapping is where you flip a switch and voila, one of the coils on the
humbucker is shorted to ground, thus giving you a true single coil pickup.
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