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This guitar is different to most others two-pickup guitars in the market,

perhaps unique as far as I know. The similarities are many when you select

the neck or bridge pickup with the pickup switch, except that you only have

a common tone knob for those. The main differences are at the mid

position of the switch, for which conventional guitars connect the neck and

bridge pickups in parallel, just as the volume and tone pots of both pickups.

This is a simple wiring arrangement, but it causes unwanted interactions

between volume and tone pots, known to every guitarist who has played

these guitars. In this mid position of the pickup switch, the Siracusa "E"

behaves differently:

A new pickup is formed by taking a coil from the neck pickup and

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another from the bridge pickup. These coils are the one closer to the

neck and the one closer to the bridge, so this new pickup is also a

humbucker.

Note: to improve the humbucking characteristics of this new pickup, the bridge and neck

pickups are more similar between them than the pickups in the conventional two-pickup

Siracusa models.

It is a series humbucker also, the same kind as the other two, not a

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different thing as the parallel humbucker in the conventional wiring,

which is more treble and less powerful.

It has its own volume control, independent from the other two (see

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the drawing above).

The tone pot is common to all three pickups. I did this to simplify

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controls, as I prefer to leave that on to the amplifier.

I would like to mention that I am aware that the conventional mid position

is used by many players, albeit mostly from other styles different from

mainstream jazz and acoustic music. It is an easy way to switch instantly to

a different amount of cream or punch, which are terms that you hear

usually when defining amp+guitar settings that are around or above the

breakup level. While it is true that you don't have this control here, I must

say that the acoustic response of the Siracusa guitars makes it very difficult

to play in the high volume settings where this is needed.