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Brand new! Seymour Duncan ALNICO PRO II humbucker pickup PAIR, APH-1B bridge and APH-1N neck position included. NICKEL COVERS.. 4 conductor wire.

Warm, moderate-output humbucker. Great for jazz, blues, classic rock and slide.
The Alnico 2 magnet and moderate windings
yield a warm, sweet tone with more natural string vibration for great
sustain. Classic rock players who get their distortion from the amp
rather than the pickup love the APH-1. It allows them to back off the
crunch and get beautiful clean tones with softer attack. Compared to
the '59, the Alnico II Pro has a rounder sound with a spongier bass
response. Comes with four-conductor hookup cable and no logo.

Seymour Duncan described the tone and making of the Alnico Pro II in an interview: 

"The APH-1 is a moderate output pickup that
features traditional humbucker construction and, obviously, an alnico
II bar magnet. The lower output means you get a full tonal spectrum
from warm lower-mids all the way up to articulate and present highs.
Alnico II is my favorite magnet material for a vintage-voiced
humbucker. I call it the “musical magnet.” The tone is warm and sweet
with a soft attack character and spongier distortion than other
magnets.
Like all Seymour Duncan pickups, the APH is
made in my Santa Barbara factory. One of the coolest things about the
APH is that it’s wound on our Leesona Model 102 winding machine, which
has the nickname “The Green Monster.” I bought two of these in 1984
when the original Gibson Kalamazoo plant was auctioning off some of
their machinery and tooling. So when you buy an APH, you’re buying a
pickup that was wound on the same winding machines Gibson was using
from the early-’50s up until the mid-’80s. We added digital counters
with automatic stops to make them more consistent. The bobbins are
polycarbonate, which is a very durable plastic. We wind the APH bobbins
with 42-gauge plain enamel magnet wire, just like the original P.A.F.
pickups. The bottom plate is nickel silver and the hookup wire is
four-conductor. Each pickup is hooked up and soldered by hand and is
then wax potted in a vacuum chamber for elimination of microphonic
feedback. After the wax gets wiped off by hand with a lint-free cloth,
the pickup gets thoroughly tested and then packed up to send to the
customer, whether that’s a guitar shop or the Gibson factory."

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