Magnetic pickup systems for stringed instruments
AssigneeDuneland Labs, LLC
InventorF. Robert Palmieri
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Abstract
A pickup system for an acoustic instrument having strings. The pickup system includes a mounting device configured to be coupled with an acoustic instrument, a sensing element secured to the mounting device and configured to convert mechanical vibrations produced by strings of the acoustic instrument into an electrical signal, and a secondary element secured to the mounting device and configured to reduce pickup of noise produced by sources other then the strings of the acoustic instrument.
Claims21
A pickup system for an acoustic instrument having strings, the system comprising:
- a mounting device configured to be coupled with the acoustic instrument;
- a sensing element secured to the mounting device and configured to convert mechanical vibrations produced by the strings of the acoustic instrument into an electrical signal, the sensing element including a first coil wound about a first center point;
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- a secondary element secured to the mounting device and configured to reduce pickup of noise produced by sources other then the strings of the acoustic instrument by the sensing element, the secondary element including a second coil wound about a second center point;
- wherein the mounting device is configured to be secured within a sound hole of the acoustic instrument and the mounting device has a passage to allow air flow therethrough;
- wherein the sensing element is located within a perimeter of the second coil of the secondary element and the first and second center points are offset from one another.
A pickup system for an acoustic instrument having strings, the system comprising:
- a mounting device configured as a removable module to be removably coupled with the acoustic instrument and can be moved from the acoustic instrument to another acoustic instrument;
- a sensing element secured to the mounting device and configured to convert mechanical vibrations produced by the strings of the acoustic instrument into an electrical signal;
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- a secondary element configured to reduce pickup of noise produced by sources other then the strings of the acoustic instrument by the sensing element;
- wherein the mounting device is configured to be secured to the acoustic instrument to locate the sensing element beneath the strings of the acoustic instrument;
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- if the acoustic instrument is equipped with a sound hole, the mounting device is configured to be removably placed in the sound hole to locate the sensing and secondary elements over the sound hole and beneath the strings of the acoustic instrument;
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- if the acoustic instrument lacks a sound hole, the mounting device is configured to suspend the secondary element from a pick guard or finger rest of the acoustic instrument and locate the sensing element beneath the strings of the acoustic instrument.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.