Re: "A Little Bit of Blues"....Which Guitar?
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:33 pm
As far as a unique sound, I always wondered how he got that beautiful sound on Tiger Rag? And so many others like MacArthur Park? Too many to mention!
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The Legendary ‘59
The Fingerboard Pickup
“On the ’59 Gretsch single cutaway Country Gentleman Chet favored for years the fingerboard pickup is a two bladed affair instead of the 12 pole Filter Tron standard. Ray Butts told me he made that one for Chet. He said it was part of his original design; it's on his patent. He made that one for Chet and he liked it. Chet said you got a fatter note with the pickup like that. This pickup, in production, became the “Super Tron”
The Bridge Pickup
Chet told me he had Shot Jackson rewind the bridge pickup on his ‘59. I used that Guitar one time and I measured the ohms on the back pickup and it was between 8000 and 9000 ohms. The standard Gretsch Filter Trons meter at 4000 ohms”