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Thread #129167   Message #2897441
Posted By: Mavis Enderby
30-Apr-10 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Tiesco guitars info wanted
Subject: RE: Tiesco guitars info wanted
Some of us are interested in electrics, especially slightly off the wall stuff like Teiscos and Guyatones!

I found this at Vintage Guitar magazine:

At least five sunburst hollowbodies were offered in '61, the PE-7, PE-8, PE-13, PE-14 and PE-51. These appear to have glued-in necks, by the way, with the open-book head, circular sticker logo and rectangular metal-covered pickups. The PE-7 was a non-cutaway thinline with dots, a single neck pickup, elevated pickguard, a fancy lyre trapeze tailpiece and volume and tone controls mounted on the lower bout. '60s Bizarre Guitars shows a ca. '61 PE-8 with a single black-plastic-covered pickup with Teisco printed on the top, small strip inlays, wooden pickguard, a fancy harp tailpiece and volume and tone mounted on the lower bout. The following year this model would have two pickups, so whether this is typical or not is unknown.

I've had a couple of Teiscos in the past, they are great for slide blues through a nice tube amp. Ry Cooder is a great fan of their pickups and, to say the least, he knows a thing or two about slide tone!

They are pretty good for rough and dirty blues as this piece of pure joy from Hound Dog Taylor shows:

Give Me Back My Wig

Pete