Pre-Owned Tom Anderson Drop Top T Burnished Orange Burst with Parsons B-Bender
Item: USTANDDRPTBBEN
Pre-Owned Tom Anderson Drop Top T Burnished Orange Burst with Parsons B-Bender
Item: USTANDDRPTBBEN
This is one killer guitar with a super comfortable neck profile that has that cool broken in feel. It also has the Parsons B-bender system factory installed.
Parsons B-Bender components are made of stainless steel with a matte-finish, polished aluminum, polished brass and include self-lubricating precision bearings in the strap lever and pull-hubs to keep all interior components virtually maintenance free. A drop of oil where the B string rides on the bridge will keep the StringBender operating silently for decades. Every 20 to 30 years the rubber bumper may need replacement.
This guitar has the vintage voicing electronics in it. What is vintage voicing? Traditionally all guitars equipped with single coil pickups were equipped with 250K pots. A 250K pot will load a pickup so that the sound is softer on the higher frequencies, some might say sweeter. Because a single coil has lots of high end, this is a good thing. Humbucking pickups have considerably less high frequency response because of several differences in their construction. A 500K pot is usually used so the maximum amount of high frequency is allowed to pass. The problem arises when you combine the two styles of pickup on one guitar. Either the humbucking sounds are great and the single coils sounds are too bright, or the opposite happens. Vintage voicing is a passive circuit that is switched on and off automatically so that the single coil pickups think they are seeing a 250K pot while the humbucking is seeing a 500K pot. This way no compromise is made on either sound.
On this guitar the Buzz Feiten designed tempered tuning system allows the guitar to play more in tune than you have ever heard before!
As we all have experienced, a guitar is not an instrument that can play perfectly in tune. When we intonate and tune a normal guitar, even when using a very accurate tuner, we find that chords, especially, don't sound very in tune. For instance, play a C chord and the 3rd might sound sharp. Play a D chord and the F# is really off. G may sound pretty good but an E chord's G# note is very off. Go up the neck and play a D shape on the 9th fret(an A chord) and it really beats. Does this sound familiar? So for the sake of illustration, let's say that a regular guitar plays about 80% in tune.
Tempered tuning is primarily a visually undetectable structural neck change in combination with slightly altered bridge intonation offsets. Chords sound much more in tune. When you listen very carefully you can hear little to no out of tune notes in chords and very little to no beating. In fact, if you don't listen extremely carefully you may think that it is perfect -- however, nothing is perfect and we figure if a normal guitar is approximately 80% in tune then Tempered Tuning is about 95% in tune.
Pre-Owned Tom Anderson Drop Top T Burnished Orange Burst with Parsons B-Bender
Features:
- Weight - 8 lbs., 2 oz.
- Burnished Orange Burst with Binding
- Parsons B-Bender
- Buzz Fieten Tuning System
- Made on 8-25-05
- Single cut away, "T" profile body with a gorgeous flame maple wood top that is swooped (or dropped) over the forearm contour to create very comfortable playing conditions and a beautiful look in one masterful move.
- Vintage Voicing Electronics
- Non-pickguard styling
- Angled control layout, without the use of a traditional âTâ control plate (like an S-style)
- 25 1/2-inch scale length
- Of course, perfection of playing and sound abound
- All Anderson's awesome attributes soundly intact.
Specifications:
- Model - Drop Top T
- Body Finish - Burnished Orange Burst with Binding
- Body Wood - Flame Maple on Solid Alder
- Neck Wood - Hard Rock Maple
- Neck Finish - Satin Finish
- Nutwidth - 1 5/8"
- Frets - Heavy
- # of Frets - 22
- Back Shape - Standard
- Hardware - Chrome
- Bridge - Non-Tremolo Fixed Bridge
- Pickups - SA1R - Vintage level, single coil sound, hum-canceling, reverse wound
SA1 - Vintage level, single coil sound, hum-canceling
TD3 - Bridge Position, hot single coil sound, hum-canceling, reverse wound for splitting
- Switching - 5 Way, Mini Switch Splits, Pull Adds Bridge, Vintage Voicing
- Comments - 1 Rear Strap Button