SH-55（上图型号为SH-55 GC），为了缅怀和 Seth E. Lover（1910--1997），SD推出的拾音器，55表示Seth E. Lover研制出HUM picK UP的年代。

原文：

　　Santa Barbara, California - Two weeks to the day after his final appearance at the National Association of Music Merchants show, Seth E. Lover, inventor of the humbucker pickup, passed away. He was 87.

　　Before Lover, electric guitarists were forced to cope with the pesky 60-cycle hum inherent in single coil pickups. It was in the mid-'50s, while working as an amplifier designer at Gibson Guitars, that Lover figured out how to wire two coils electrically out of phase and with reversed magnetic polarities. The effect was to cancel the hum before it reached the amp and the result was the birth of the humbucking pickup.

　　Lover applied for the patent on the humbucking pickup in 1955 and it was finally granted in 1959 (U.S. 2,896,491). During this five-year period, Gibson adhered a "Patent Applied For" sticker to the underside of their humbucker pickups. These "P.A.F." pickups are the most collectable and desirable pickups today, fetching upwards of $1,000 each among vintage guitar collectors.

　　While working under Ted McCarty at Gibson, Lover was also involved in guitar design. He liked to tell how he helped contribute to the design of the famous "Flying V." Lover said that he thought up the design as a way to lean the guitar against a wall without it tipping over.

　　Lover worked for Gibson from 1952 to 1967 as a design engineer. In 1967, he transferred to Fender Musical Instruments where he worked until 1975 as a project engineer. In addition to his two Gibson patents, he authored three more at Fender -- two for loudspeaker cabinets and one for an electric piano pickup. He retired to the Southern California town of Garden Grove where he lived quietly with Lavone, his wife of 59 years.

　　Seymour W. Duncan, known industry-wide as the guitar pickup guru, considered Lover his "humbucker mentor." The two were associated for nearly 20 years. In 1994, Seymour and Seth Lover joined forces to release the Seth Lover Model™ pickup, an authentic re-creation of the "Patent Applied For" humbucker. After numerous full-page ads, NAMM show appearances, and magazine interviews, Seth became a minor celebrity - at age 84!

　　Seth always maintained a quick wit and a keen sense of humor. He was once heard joking that on his birth certificate, under the section marked "father's name," it merely said, "Lover!" During his final years, Seth was a regular member of the Seymour Duncan NAMM-team. He loved to hold court in the Duncan booth answering questions and signing autographs, always with Lavone at his side.

　　Seth Lover died on January 31, 1997 after a brief illness. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on New Years Day, 1910, Seth is survived by Lavone, his two sons Robert and Gene, and three grandchildren.

译文：

　　1997年，在参加完当年的NAMM SHOW两周后，Seth E. Lover这个HUMBUCKER picK UP拾音器的发明者，永远的离开了我们，享年87岁。

　　在Seth E. Lover发明HUM picK UP以前，吉他手们不得不忍受单线圈拾音器带来的翁翁声，而就是在上世纪50年代中期，身为GIBSON音箱工程师的Seth E. Lover提出，可以用两个颠倒磁性的磁体并排来消除这种噪音，最后的结果是噪音消除了，一个伟大的拾音器也诞生了，就是我们大家都熟悉的双线圈picK UP。

　　Seth E. Lover在1955年开始对HUM picK UP申请专利，并于1959年得到专利号（U.S.2,896,491）。在申请专利的这5年里面，GIBSON一直在这个拾音器的下面贴着“PATENT APPLIED FOR”（意思是已经申请了专利）的字样。而这批50年代生产的P.A.F拾音器也成了收藏家的心爱之物，每个拾音器现在的价值都在1000美金之上。

　　在GIBSON工作的时期里，Seth E. Lover同样设计吉他，大名鼎鼎的“FLYING V”就是出自Seth E. Lover之手。当被问到设计“FLYING V”缘由的时候，Seth E. Lover说他只是想设计一种能靠在墙上不容易翻倒的吉他。

　　从1952年到1967年，Seth E. Lover在GIBSON一直担任设计工程师，从1967年到1975年Seth E. Lover调动到FENDER公司担任项目经理。在Seth E. Lover的设计生涯里面，除了他在GIBSON公司的两个设计专利外，他在FENDER公司也留下了很多著名的设计，包括两个知名的扬声器和一个电钢琴的拾音器。Seth E. Lover退休后一直和自己的妻子享受祥和的晚年。

　　Seymour W. Duncan，这个业内行家一直视Seth E. Lover为自己的良师益友，这两个20多年的莫逆之交在1994年的NAMM SHOW上给世人带来了重新改造后的”P.A.F”拾音器SH-55，Seth E. Lover在 84岁高龄的时候，又一次成为了圈内的名人。

　　Seth E. Lover是一个非常和蔼的老人，慈祥幽默，在他最后的几年里，一直作为Seymour Duncan的技术顾问，给大家签名并解答问题。

　　Seth E. Lover在1997年1月31号离开人世，让我们永远缅怀这为拾音器制作大师。

PS：SD著名的SH-1 59也是有含义的，59年Seth E. Lover取得的专利。