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Ted McCarty: As the head of Gibson, Inc., Ted McCarty was instrumental at breathing new life into the guitar market with innovative body shapes and groundbreaking hardware and electronic designs, many of which are still used heavily today. An engineer by trade and a music fan by nature, McCarty began his career working for the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. before becoming the vice president and general manager at Gibson in 1949. By 1950 he had been made president of Gibson, and held that position for the next 16 years. McCarty made it a goal to boost the design creativity of both the structure of electric guitars and the electronics. With the advent of solid-body guitars, McCarty realized he could build guitars of any shape or size without compromising tone, and thus he and his team pushed away from traditionally shaped rounded-bout instruments and pursued new, angular designs. The fruits of these forays into angular designs became legendary instruments: The Flying V, Explorer, and SG, to name a few. Of course, McCarty's team was also responsible for the Les Paul, Byrdland, and ES-335, as well as the Hummingbird and Dove acoustic models. At the 1958 NAMM show, the music world was shocked by the radical new approach to instrument design with the unveiling of the previously mentioned Explorer, Flying V, and Moderne. Apparently, McCarty was a bit ahead of his time. Conversely, the SG was almost instantly a classic. In 1952, McCarty was granted a patent for the Tune-O-Matic Bridge, a design that is still a mainstay of Gibson guitars. Ted was also involved in the development of the stop bar tailpiece. Aside from the design and hardware innovations, one of the greatest inventions ever to grace a guitar was achieved under the guidance of Ted McCarty - the twin-coil humbucking pickup. With the humbucker, guitarists now had access to fatter tones and quieter, hum-free operation. These achievements were foreshadowed by McCarty's development of a pickup/pickguard attachment that allowed electrification of an archtop guitar without modifying the acoustic tone. This design became known as the "McCarty unit." Under McCarty's tutelage, Gibson saw record profits and growth, but more importantly, the strides made by McCarty and his team forever changed the look and sound of rock n' roll.

T-Zone Tempered Treble	Terminal Adapter (TA)	TA4F
Tablature	Tach pulse	Tailpiece
Tails Out	Take	Talkback
Tamo Ash	Tangential Room Mode	Tap
Tape Delay	Tape Pack	Taper
Tape Saturation	Tape Wound	Tapping
Tap Tempo	Tarnish	TCP
TDIF	TDM	Tea Chest Bass
Technical Ground (a.k.a. technical earth ground)	Ted McCarty	TEF
Telecine	Telescoping Shield	Temperament
Template	Tempo	Tempo Map
Temporary Threshold Shift	Temp Score	Tenor
Terabyte	TeraFLOPS	Terminal
Terminal Strip (a.k.a. barrier strip)	Terminator / Termination	Test Tone
Tetrode	TFT	THD (Total Harmonic Distortion)
THD+N	"The Log"	Theremin
Thermal Noise	Thermal Recalibration	Thermionic Emission
Thimbles	Thin-Skin Nitro	Thinline
Third-Harmonic Distortion	Third Party	Three-Phase
Threshold	Threshold of Feeling	Threshold of Pain
Through-composed	Throughput	Thru Box
Thumbnail	THX	Tick
Timbre	Time-Based Effect	Time Aligned
Time Alignment	Time Base	Time Code
Time Code Address	Time Compression/Expansion	Timeline
Time Machine	Time Out	Time Signature
Tine	Tine Piano	Tinnitus
TNC	Table Of Contents (TOC)	Toccata
Tolerance	Tolex	Tone
Tone Burst	Tone Transfer	Tonewheel
Tonewoods	Tonguing	Tonic
Tonicization	Tonic Sol-Fa	Top Boost
Toroid	Tortoiseshell	TOSLink
Touch Sensitive	Track	Track-at-Once (TAO)
Trackball	Transconductance	Transcription
Transducer	Transfer Rate	Transformer
Transient	Transient Response	Transimpedance Amp
Transistor	Transition band	Transmission Loss
Transondent	Transparent	Transport
Transport Controls	Transpose	Transwave
Treble	Treble Bleed Capacitor	Tremolando
Tremolo	Tremolo Block	Tri-Amp
Triad	Triangle Wave	Trigger
Trigger Sync	Trim	Triode
Triode	Triple-Back	Triple Meter
Triplet	Tritone	Troubleshooting
TRS	True Bypass	True Diversity
True Stereo	Truncate	Truss
Truss Rod	Truss Rod Cover	TS
TT	Tuchel	Tune-O-Matic Bridge
Tuner	Tuner Button	Turnaround
Turnkey	TVA	TVF
TVS	Tweed	Tweeter