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“When you would bend the strings across the fingerboard, the pickups would make this kind of rushing sound because the polepieces went north-south, north-south, north-south”: Brian May on the trials and tribulations of building the Red Special
https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/brian-may-building-the-red-special
May famously built the original with his father while in his teens. The duo even originally built the guitar's pickups themselves, though on that particular front they faced some headwinds
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Paul Crook says he played Brian May's original Red Special “several times”: “It feels like a baseball bat”
Meat Loaf guitarist Paul Crook has looked back on the multiple occasions he had the pleasure of playing Brian May’s iconic Red Special guitar.
https://guitar.com/news/music-news/paul-crook-brian-may-original-red-special/