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Patent No. 9,401,134 to be issued 7/26/2016

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has given official notice that Patent Application 14/338,373, filed 07/23/2014, published as US 2016/0027422 A1, will be issued on 07/26/2016 as Patent No. 9,401,134.

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Lost cost guitars for grade and high schools?

I’m curious to know if there are any school systems out there which would like to license, for minimal cost, the right to make a simple version in their shop classes of the kind of guitar described here, to be … Continue reading

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Business Partners Wanted

Why should you?  The intellectual property described on TulsaSoundGuitars.com and being developed will change the industry, providing musicians with a whole new universe of customization and control.  You should check it out. OK, this is maybe a bad business decision, … Continue reading

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Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2.1

It seems worth repeating the message another way, showing how to get the most out of humbucking pairs: For a pickup with 4 matched single-coil pickups, you can have 8 different personalities of 12 timbres each.  The personalities, timbres available … Continue reading

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When you have something to say – please let me hear it

So I’m an old guy.  I remember music from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.  What do I miss? Clarity. If I go to live music today, it’s often so loud, it’s painful.  Not only that, it’s so loud I can’t … Continue reading

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2

Click Here. Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2.  The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is … Continue reading

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New page: How Many Useful Outputs From Five Coils?

How Many Useful Pickup Combinations Can You Get From 5 Coils? © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC How many possible connections, musically meaningful or not, can you get from 5 electromagnetic coil pickups?  More specifically from two humbuckers, … Continue reading

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Guitars With Too Many Choices to Succeed

(c) 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC Let me put this in Bold:  With humbucking pairs, you can set a guitar up to shift from warm to bright without ever knowing which pairs are used. Other  guitars have come … Continue reading

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 1

A new page discussing how the tonal quality and range of a guitar can be changed by plug-in pickups and a plug-in board connecting the pickups to a tone switch.

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Applying HB Pairs Analysis to the Paul Reed Smith 513 Guitar

Applying Humbucking (HB) Pairs Analysis to the Paul Reed Smith 513 Guitar © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC, Tulsa OK The Paul Reed Smith PRS-513 guitar, a beautiful, awesome-sounding guitar, boasts a 3-way and a 5-way switch to … Continue reading

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