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Rickenbacker founder Adolph Rickenbacher with the Rick that started it all—a “frying pan” lap steel.
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84 PREMIER GUITAR FEBRUARY 2012
Tom Petty’s sig- nature 660/12TP was one of the most anticipated
Rickenbacker signature
models. But features that
Petty himself requested—
including a gold pickguard
and nameplate, checkerboard binding, and,
most importantly, wider
string spacing—proved so
popular that they inspired
a new model, the 660/12,
that’s still in the Rickenbacker line to this day.
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