Enter the following into the Glossary &gt;Technical: Sidewinder:  a type of humbucking pickup with the 2 coils lying on their sides.  Invented by Seth Lover for Gibson but only used as neck pickups in some bass models and never in guitar because it sounds so bad. Three examples are Gibson EB3 bass neck pickup / Lace Holy Grail Strat pickup / Fralin noiseless P-90. This is a flawed design because, like a primitive stack (vertical humbucker) the two coils are out-of-phase with respect to hum and also string signal so almost as much string signal is cancelled as hum signal due to magnetic coupling between the coils. The result is the coils are overwound in order to magnify the difference between string signal and hum cancellation in order to achieve sufficient output. Sidewinder pickups do not sound lively and lack satisfying attack and dynamics because overwinding and string signal cancellation rob the sound of these important characteristics.  There is no practical use for a Sidewinder because it sounds so bad.