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US 2026/0120671 A1Published application
Polyphonic pickup for stringed musical instrument
AssigneeOverman AB
InventorsWilliam Wyatt OVERMAN, Jonathan P. FORSYTHE
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Abstract
A polyphonic pickup system for a stringed musical instrument includes one or more user-input devices collectively defining a plurality of distinct selectable configurations, enabling the user to direct audio signals corresponding to different subsets of the instrument's strings to different audio-output channels for directing audio signals originating from different individual strings of the instrument.
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A polyphonic pickup system for a musical instrument having a plurality of strings, the system comprising:
- two or more audio-pickup devices, each configured to output a signal indicative of music produced by a respective predetermined subset of the plurality of strings;
- two or more audio-output devices;
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- one or more user-input devices collectively defining two or more selectable configurations, the one or more user-input devices being communicatively coupled between the audio-pickup devices and the audio-output devices, such that each selectable configuration defines a unique coupling arrangement between the audio-pickup devices and the audio-output devices.
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A stringed musical instrument comprising a polyphonic pickup system, the system comprising:
- two or more audio-pickup devices, each configured to output a signal indicative of music produced by a respective predetermined subset of a plurality of strings of the instrument;
- two or more audio-output devices;
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- one or more user-input devices collectively defining two or more selectable configurations, the one or more user-input devices being communicatively coupled between the audio-pickup devices and the audio-output devices, such that each selectable configuration defines a unique coupling arrangement between the audio-pickup devices and the audio-output devices.
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