Seth Lover
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Seth Lover (born January 1, 1910 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA; died January 31, 1997 in Garden Grove, California, USA) is most famous for inventing the humbucker or hum-cancelling electric stringed instrument pickup, most often used on the electric guitar.
Lover's most famous humbucker design (U.S. Patent 2,896,491 ) was the P.A.F. (Patent Applied For) designed while working for Gibson Musical Instruments in 1955. This pickup was utilised in a range of Gibson guitars, most notably the Les Paul model. Another of his designs, known as the Fender Wide Range humbucking pickup (WRHP), was used in the three Telecaster models (Telecaster Deluxe, Custom, and Thinline) produced by Fender in the 1970s.
