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Seymour Duncan Guitar Pickups

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Seymour Duncan is a name as important to guitar pickups as Fender and Gibson are to the guitar itself. It might sound like a bold claim to make, but there's no denying it's true. Growing up in the 1950s and '60s, Seymour Duncan basically shared the early years of his life with the evolution of the electric guitar, and once he got into playing one, it didn't take long for him to discover his calling. After his Telecaster pickup broke, he used a record player to re-wind it himself at home. And when he discovered that it sounded better afterward, the seed was planted for the Seymour Duncan guitar pickups we know and play all over the world today.

Things have come a long, long way in the decades since Seymour Duncan's first repair job. Now he's at the helm of a renowned company that has made and serviced hardware for artists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Today's line runs the gamut from classic humbuckers like the Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB Humbucker Pickup to purpose-built powerhouses like the Texas blues rock-inspired Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 Pearly Gates Pickup. And that's just the tip of the iceberg: there are also signature models including the Seymour Duncan APH-2n Alnico II Pro Slash Humbucker Electric Guitar Neck Pickup, and acoustic guitar pickups like the Seymour Duncan Woody HC Hum-Canceling Soundhole Pickup. There's so much variety in SD pickups that it might even take a bit of exploring through this section to find all the best opportunities to transform the sound of your guitar.

In the end, that's really what Seymour Duncan guitar pickups are all about: opportunity. Part of playing a guitar is customizing it to achieve your own personal signature tone, and Seymour Duncan gives you lots of opportunity to do so with a huge selection of pickups for just about every guitar you could even imagine having in your collection. So no matter what you play or how you play it, there's no doubt that you can find some Seymour Duncan pickups ready to help you take it to the next level.