Steinberger GR4

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Lou DeFelippo

n00b
This is my first post and a few weeks back I got a Steinberger
GR4. The original pickups were changed so I'm going to get
the Hot Rails for the neck and middle position. Now for the
Humbucker I think it's the Seymour Duncan (SH-11). Is that
the right Humbucker? My GR4 is one of 7 guitars that I own
I also have 2 Amps a Vox AC30HW2X and a Louis Electric
Gattone.
 
The GR series all came with factory Seymour Duncan pickups. These were two Hot Rails in the neck and middle and a Duncan Custom Custom humbucker in the bridge.

Despite the adverts of the era saying the guitar came with custom Duncan pickups or Duncan Custom pickups, and the Duncan Custom being a normal production Duncan model humbucker, these guitars actually had Duncan Custom Custom model humbuckers in them. This is the SH11 model. You can still buy all of these pickups from Duncan today. I've taken apart a bunch of these and they all had a Duncan SH11 in them. The other two are SHR-1(N) hotrails. The add calls them cool hot rails, but the stickers on the baseplates clearly show SHR-1 hotrails models.

The catalog page below specifies the Duncan Custom Custom as the HB. This is the only one I know of that correctly specifies the pickup model. Most say "Duncan custom humbucker pickups" or something similar. Most of this model came after Gibson was calling the shots, and we all know how clear and consistent their marketing and labelling were.

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