Nominal Output Voltage of Tele Pickups

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I had my oscilloscope out the other day and had the guitar nearby. I've played guitars through an oscilloscope before, but never thought to write down the levels. I thought you geetar geeks might find this interesting. The pickups were Seymour Duncan Stacks. The scope input is 1Mohm impedance.
[*]Normal single note playing = ~50mV peak[*]Rhythm playing an open E chord as hard as fast as possible = ~200mV peak[*]An open guitar cord laying on the bench = ~25mV peak[*]Touching the tip of a guitar cord isolated from ground (human body 60Hz antenna...50Hz for our Euro friends) = ~2 volts peak

It's kind of amazing that our human body pickup to 60Hz fields is so much greater than thousands of turns of copper wire on a magnet. Bear in mind that I was in my shop which has 12 fluorescent bulbs, a horrible source for radiated noise fields.