Pickup unit of electric stringed instrument
AssigneeYamaha Corporation
InventorYojiro Takabayashi
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Abstract
A pickup unit of an electric stringed instrument is constituted of a vibrator supporting strings, a support which is installed inside the recess of a lower bridge so as to support the vibrator, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements which convert vibrations of strings transmitted thereto via the vibrator into electric signals. At least one presser member is interposed between the vibrator and the support. The presser member is constituted of a screw that is put into the lower surface of the vibrator from the lower surface of the support, thus upwardly pressing the piezoelectric elements onto the vibrator. This makes it possible to efficiently transmit vibrations of strings to the piezoelectric elements, thus improving the tone color and sound quality of an electric stringed instrument.
Claims15
A pickup unit installed in a bridge of an electric stringed instrument, comprising:
- a support member;
- a bridge;
- a vibrator extending into and supported by the support member;
- a plurality of piezoelectric elements located in and supported by the support member, the piezoelectric elements being in contact with the vibrator so that when one or more strings are placed in contact with the vibrator and the strings are vibrated, the vibrations are transmitted to the piezoelectric elements and converted into electric signals;
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- at least one presser member for causing relative movement between the support member and the vibrator in such a manner that the piezoelectric elements are pressed into contact with the vibrator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.