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“Even at nearly 80, he was still creative and highly motivated, looking forward to what his next range of guitars might be”: Remembering the late Alan Entwistle – pickups guru, guitar electrics whiz and repairman to the British blues boom
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Speaking to us last year, Entwistle had sharp memories of the instrument that set him on his path.
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But while his retro-modern pickups caught that same vintage character, he also forged ahead with a series of innovative variable tone devices, most notably the ATN 5 and ATN Tone Shaper.
A post shared by Alan Entwistle Pickups (@alanentwistlepickups) A photo posted by onCelebrated as a great British designer, Entwistle nonetheless spent much of his life and career in Eastern Asia and the Southern Hemisphere (where he moved in the late ’70s).
“Even at nearly 80, he was still creative and highly motivated, looking forward to what his next range of guitars might be,” concluded Davies’ valedictory post.