Vintage 1955 National Triplex 1088

This Vintage 1955 TripleX Lap Steel Slide Guitar has a lever which can be placed in 3 different positions. Tuning Changes:E7 (lever Faces Towards Headstock), C#Minor (lever Faces up), A Major High Bass (Lever Faces Bridge). The Slide Guitar is in great condition with a few minor scuffs on the instrument. The Guitar comes with the original case as well. Original Case is semi beat up but full of history. The Super Alnico pickups appear to be humbuckers, but it’s an external impression created by the wide case/housing which is part of the design's function — it’s a single-coil dressed as a dual-coil. Evolved from the Vista-tones, the Super Alnico’s internal configuration has magnets to the sides of a single coil, separated by a steel “keeper.” Its six pole pieces are height-adjustable screws. According to inventor Ralph Keller’s patent, “An object of this invention is to provide a pickup device which establishes a magnetic field extending for a substantial distance along each string, with the magnetic lines of force lying substantially parallel to the strings for the major portion of said distance.” The wide magnetic field spans the width of the housing, interacting with approximately two inches of the strings’ length. - Calvet describes them as “a really big sounding pickup. Single coil tone with focus yet a little knarley around the edges. Very much like a P90 type pickup but with a much bigger personality.”