T-Series Single Pick-up “La Pirata”

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T-Series “La Pirata” single-pick-up guitar

This one-pickup “La Pirata” is a veritable Rock & Roll machine. Amazing are the super-rich and powerful tones when the Môd-knob is on ‘10′ (or ‘11′) and you work only the Volume and Tone knobs. Then when you turn the Môd-knob down, there opens up an entirely new rainbow of sound… Swampy Louisiana blues tones, to Tele-twang, to stinging “Once-upon-a-time” flavor…

A modded-by-Teye DiMarzio Super Distortion or Tone-Zone Humbucker is what powers this guitar.

Of course, she is not as sophisticated as the three-pickup-models, but, if your goal is to “remove the plaque from the teeth of those within a 100-yard radius” (Marc Fincham) then you will most likely be very pleased with the La Pirata.

–>As an aside: Teye himself performs with an A-Series “La Llama”, and a Spanish Cedar T-Series “La Pirata” for open E-tunings and slide. Nuff said.
(see below for a video)

Prices:

• $ 2300 – natural Mahogany color, in hand-rubbed Oil finish.
• $ 2700 – cherry-red with black front plate and gold hardware, in hand-rubbed Oil finish.
• $ 2700 – black with bare aluminum front plate, in hand-rubbed Oil finish.
• $ 2700 – black with black front plate and gold hardware, in hand-rubbed Oil finish.

T-Series “La Pirata” specs:

•    Body: select Mahogany or Spanish Cedar
•    Neck: select Mahogany
•    Fingerboard: unbound ebony, with 24 frets and the Teye-inlay
•    Tuners: Grover deluxe imperial Rotomatics
•    Pick-up: a DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker (modded-by-Teye)
•    Electronics: a simplified version of Teye’s proprietory circuitry, with master Volume, Tone, and Môd-knobs
•    Bridge and Tailpiece: machine-version of Teye’s A-Series hardware
•    Thru-and-thru engraved body and truss cover plates
•    Tung-Oil finish
•    All-hand-made in Austin Texas

Aubrey Caldwell with her cherry-red Pirata

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And TWO ‘La Pirata’ guitars in action:

“La Pirata”There must be a reason. And then, why call her ‘La Pirata’?

1) During the late 70’s and 1980’s, Teye used the see-through Ampeg Dan Armstrong as his main guitar. Even went so far as to construct a copy together with his father, in 1981.

2) When you think of pirates, you think of eye-patches and hooks. So it befits the one-pickup guitar to be called: the Pirate Lady (La Pirata)