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The Thud Before the Shimmer: How Compression and a Reversed String Order Gave the Rickenbacker 12-String Its Jangle

The Thud Before the Shimmer: How Compression and a Reversed String Order Gave the Rickenbacker 12-String Its Jangle

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November 6, 2026

Roger McGuinn said the guitar by itself was thuddy and did not ring. The shimmer people call jangle was built around that problem.