Fascinating Facts about Paul and his songs that you've always
wanted answered
5.1.1 How many cabs in New York City?
One of TK's
friends, living in New York has found:
There are 12,800 cabs in New York City... each
one of which is crazy! (October 2000)
5.1.2 How many notes on a saxophone?
From Music
Notes - The saxophone body contains twenty openings that
are covered by keys. These keys can be opened or closed in
groups by the musician by depressing and releasing six studs,
or finger plates. Two additional holes are located on the
body of the instrument to produce notes an octave above or
below the normal range of the instrument.
5.1.3 How many stars in the milky way?
From The
Milky Way Galaxy - The Milky Way is the galaxy which is
the home of our Solar System together with at least 200 billion
other stars and their planets, and thousands of clusters and
nebulae.
Coincidentally, 7min 32secs translates to 452-seconds: Sir
Don's Highest-Score [in 1st-class cricket].
Craig Wilkie
has dug out information from Gibson
about Paul's guitar:
16" wide, thin body, bass-side cutaway rounded similar
to ES-335,
treble-side cutaway more pointed like Les Paul Standard (solidbody),
2 oblong low-impedance humbucking pickups with white covers,
4 knobs (volume, treble tone, midrange tone, in/out phase
switch), 3-way selector on upper bass bout, 2 jacks (high
impedance on top,
low-impedance on rim), large rectangular tune-o-matic bridge,
bound rosewood fingerboard, trapezoid inlay, sunburst or gold
finish.
Introduced: 1973
Rectangular pickups with embossed "Gibson": mid
1974
High/low impedance humbucking pickups: 1976
Sunburst finish discontinued: 1976
Discontinued: 1978
5.4 Is Paul an Australian Aborigine /
What is Paul's background?
No, Paul is not an Australian Aborigine. His background
is Irish and Italian.
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