Description
The Twang King bridge pickup isn’t chasing one specific vintage year — DiMarzio studied a handful of favorite Broadcaster and early Tele pickups from the 50s and 60s and pulled out the traits that mattered most: full, clean low end paired with highs that have some meat on them, plus a dynamic range wide enough to go from glassy to gnarly depending on how hard you hit the strings.
That touch sensitivity is the whole point. Play soft and the DP173 stays quiet and smooth; dig in with a harder pick attack and it pushes back with more volume, more edge, and more dynamic snap than a typical single-coil can manage. DiMarzio gets there through controlled-tension coil winding, custom wire, and magnets that are hand-calibrated rather than dropped in at random — small details that add up to a pickup that responds to nuance instead of flattening it out.
This bridge version uses a ferrous base plate (the matching neck model gets a chrome cover instead), and both are double wax-potted so you get quiet, squeal-free performance even at higher gain or stage volume.
- Wiring: 2-conductor
- Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output: 198 mV
- DC Resistance: 8.07 kOhm
- Introduced: 1995
If you love the idea of vintage Tele twang but want a pickup that opens up under a harder attack instead of just getting louder, the Twang King bridge is worth a closer look.
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