Glossary additions / revisions:Glossary &gt;Technical &gt;An electrical device, in it's simplest form, consisting of a coil of wire wrapped around a set of permanent magnets so designed to induce an analogue electrical signal corresponding to the string vibrations in the coil by vibrating the magnetic field with the strings. See also Humbucker and Noiseless.Glossary &gt;Sonic: Knopfler-esque sound:  Mark Knopflers trademark signature sound used on the album Sultans of Swing.  A stock Strat with non-aged vintage spec pickups in position 2 (bridge + middle) and position 4 (middle + neck).  This is the sound of pickup connected in parallel and in-phase, not out-of-phase as some mistakenly believe.  A very similar effect is achieved  when any 2 similar pickups are connected in parallel but the most striking and exaggerated Knopfler-esque sound is achieved with two similar P-90 Hx pickups.  Regular Humbuckers exhibit the same tendency but the effect is weak.  The effect is more pronounced when operating certain humbuckers in split coil mode, even when mixed with certain Strat pickups. Hum can be cancelled when using single coil non-noiseless pickups by using a reverse wound, reverse magnetic polarity second pickup (middle of a Strat) which acts like the second coil of a humbucking pickup.  When hum-cancelling pickups are used this is not necessary or appropriate.