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Historical Esoterica: Pan Les Paul "Modified by Alembic"
« on: June 10, 2005, 11:47:58 AM »
Check out this lawsuit Les Paul currently on ebay.
 
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Historical Esoterica: Pan Les Paul "Modified by Alembic"
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2005, 05:17:41 PM »
In a previous thread, Michael (dela217) had this to say about Pan Alembics:
 
Pan was a company that was distributed by L.D. Heater. The same folks that distributed Alembic back in 1973 and 74 before Rothchild stepped in. A Pan/Alembic is a Pan instrument that was modified by Alembic on a production line basis. At least that is what the Pan brochure says that I am taking this from. The Pan/Alembic instruments featured Alembic ceramic magnet hot-rod modification and some Alembic shielding. There was also some Alembic low end boost and low end cut switches. So....a Pan was a Pan, and a Pan/Alembic was just a knockoff with some uprated electronics.