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  • #1

    What the hell is Chris Stein

    Playing? That's an awful lot of pots

    https://youtu.be
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    Looks like an Airline Town & Country.
    Originally posted by crusty philtrum
    And that's probably because most people with electric guitars seem more interested in their own performance rather than the effect on the listener ... in fact i don't think many people who own electric guitars even give a poop about the effect on a listener. Which is why many people play electric guitars but very very few of them are actually musicians.

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    • #3
      It is a National, I thought it was an Airline at first also.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Securb View Post
        It is a National, I thought it was an Airline at first also.

        Good catch.
        Originally posted by crusty philtrum
        And that's probably because most people with electric guitars seem more interested in their own performance rather than the effect on the listener ... in fact i don't think many people who own electric guitars even give a poop about the effect on a listener. Which is why many people play electric guitars but very very few of them are actually musicians.
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        • #5
          What do you figure the extra pots do? I'm guessing a volume and tone for each pickup, but then that still leaves two mystery pots.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
            What do you figure the extra pots do?
            When you work it out, let me know.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
              What do you figure the extra pots do? I'm guessing a volume and tone for each pickup, but then that still leaves two mystery pots.
              Split, phase , mixer?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Lucius Paisley View Post

                When you work it out, let me know.

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                Wtf is this? One pickup or two?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by GuitarStv View Post
                  What do you figure the extra pots do? I'm guessing a volume and tone for each pickup, but then that still leaves two mystery pots.
                  You are close, you just counted the pickups incorrectly. Three volumes, three tones, and a master volume. The bridge has a pickup built into it.
                  Last edited by Securb; 11-28-2022, 06:56 PM.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by solspirit View Post

                    Wtf is this? One pickup or two?
                    Technically, it's one...

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                    Everything from the neck pickup has been removed except the stacked bobbins and spacer, which are only there to hold the cover in place.

                    Normally I'd have left it out completely, but it would have looked very ugly compared to this.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Securb View Post
                      It is a National, I thought it was an Airline at first also.
                      Except that's Frank Infante, not Chris Stein.

                      Last edited by beaubrummels; 11-28-2022, 07:09 PM.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by beaubrummels View Post

                        Except that's Frank Infante, not Chris Stein.

                        Thank you, but that still doesn't tell us anything about the guitar.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by solspirit View Post

                          Thank you, but that still doesn't tell us anything about the guitar.
                          You asked what Chris Stein was playing, so all the answers in this thread would be the incorrect answer.

                          Chris Stien is playing a 1960's Hagstrom Goya Deluxe 90. There aren't many knobs on that, but you can see what most of the switches do here if you zoom in:



                          Last edited by beaubrummels; 11-28-2022, 07:46 PM.
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                            https://www.vintageguitar.com/15833/15833/
                            Whether Valco – the company that made National guitars in the 1950s and ’60s – was actually inspired by U.S. geography when it created its legendary “map” guitars is unknown, but they may well have simply meant to be eye-catching in the dry days before the Beatles ignited the mania for electric guitars. Whatever the
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