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The Who, Pinball Wizard, '69. Reverse Peter Green Mod?


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55 minutes ago, RobB said:

No story. The orientation of the pickup has no effect on the sound. It's the flipped magnet in the rhythm pickup that gives that sound.

They're lip-synching, anyway.

Everyone lip synced back then all the way through the 70s IIRC.

I am aware of the flipping of the mag in the Peter Green mod. My question was why was Pet Townshand's bridge pickup turned backwards? 

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3 hours ago, gtrdaddy said:

Because it moves the poles further away from the bridge, fattens up and warms the sound of the bridge pickup just a tad. 

I'm aware of this too. I guess I'm asking something along the order of Gibson QC. Was this from factory mistake or did they turn them this way in the early days? Or would it have been Townshand who turned it? It takes a bit of effort to turn them because of those darn ring springs so someone either made a mistake and was too lazy to change it to factory spec or someone did it intentionally. So was Pete known for tinkering? I liked, "Live at Leeds," when I was a kid but never got into any of their other albums so I know nothing about the band.

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