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Glenn Wilde

 

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Post  Posted 3 Aug 2022 3:59 pm    
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Eddie Peabody and his Beachcombers, 1938. Full line of Vega electric instruments!!!!
https://youtu.be/MaryQ2ORGs0
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 4 Aug 2022 1:50 pm    
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Song of the Islands is nice. I guess shortly after that, Rickenbacher sued the companies who copied their pick up.
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Noah Miller


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Post  Posted 4 Aug 2022 3:03 pm    
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Rickenbacker didn't sue anyone. Vega, Epiphone, Kay, and other companies using horseshe-type pickups shortly realized that it was cheaper and eaiser to build under-string pickups. Not that Vega's horseshoe pickups were anything like Rickenbacker's to begin with. By 1938 Vega had actually stopped using true horseshoes; perhaps this film was released that year but filmed earlier, or else the instruments weren't brand new.
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