Magnetic pickup for stringed instruments
OwnerHelmut F. K. Schallerinventor
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Abstract
A magnetic pickup for use with a guitar or other instrument having ferro-magnetic strings has a pole piece for each string which is easily adjustable by hand to vary the strength and phase of the output signal produced by the vibration of the associated string.
Claims6
A magnetic pickup for use with guitars or other musical instruments having ferro-magnetic strings, said pickup comprising a magnet adapted to underlie at least one string of an instrument and having opposite poles displaced from one another along the length of such a string when said pickup is attached to an instrument, a coil surrounding said magnet, and a pole piece located between said magnet and said string when said pickup is attached to said instrument, said pole piece being movable relative to said magnet in the direction parallel to said string.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.