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Post by Taildragger on Aug 9, 2020 11:26:57 GMT -5
I've seen "banjo" style tuners on early Gibson solid-body basses and later T-Birds, but never on a Gibson semi hollow. Turns out that the very earliest ones were equipped with them at the factory:
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Post by LTB on Aug 10, 2020 3:22:53 GMT -5
Guess I have never seen those on a bass before. Interesting
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ilan
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Post by ilan on Aug 10, 2020 9:32:37 GMT -5
It also has the early single-coil pickup and Mickey Mouse body horns.
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Post by Taildragger on Aug 10, 2020 14:12:35 GMT -5
Just to correct my mistake above: it was actually the Gibson Explorer bass (1958 debut), not the T-bird (1963 debut) that also used the banjo-style tuners.
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Post by hushnel on Aug 11, 2020 9:14:13 GMT -5
I wouldn’t think a friction type tuner would hold, I like the looks of that bass. Maybe because of my first bass has a similar body color.
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twangmeister
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Post by twangmeister on Aug 11, 2020 18:38:16 GMT -5
Wow! The only '50s Gibson bass I ever saw before was an EB with friction tuners. I never saw the early EB-2 or an Explorer bass before. Those banjo tuners must have made for some twitchy tuning.
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Bopper
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Post by Bopper on Aug 12, 2020 7:58:15 GMT -5
Those banjo tuners are geared, aren't they?
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Post by hushnel on Sept 15, 2020 12:58:45 GMT -5
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Post by LTB on Sept 22, 2020 4:37:49 GMT -5
That tuner sure looks geared. Tech has gotten pretty fancy they do have drop in (sort of) geared tuners for classical stringed instruments now that are difficult to tell the difference. They look geared to me also due to the offset of the peg and the tuner shaft. |
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