Single coil · broken winding
The ghostpickup.
A single-coil pickup whose winding has broken inside, yet still works. An ohmmeter shows no reading.
Nancy · 1953 · serial 2324
Roy Buchanan’sguitar.
The best-known example. Its bridge pickup gives no ohm reading and still works. Lent at times to the Fullerton Museum Center.
At the bench · Rare
Rare catch.Like a shiny.
No two are wound alike, and none ever will be. Now and then one comes out a ghost, and nobody knows why. That sound belongs to one player.