They had been supplying Fender and Gibson since the 60s, but now they made a real impact. Schaller, a musical hardware company in Germany, came up with the idea of the locking tuner and hold the patent. So once again, the Les Paul needed something different.
The existing tuners weren’t really up to the job of handling extreme note bending and heavy use of the “whammy bar” on Les Paul’s that were fitted with Bigsby’s. Strings were being bent all over the place to go with this ‘new’ sound. The way you could play the guitar changed.
The humbucker in its original form had been around since the 30s. Seth Lover’s solution to hum brought a whole new style to the Les Paul. The Patent Applied For pickup, or as it is better known, the “PAF” pickup.
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