Patent ID: 6271457
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G10H,Y10S

Abstract:
A piezoelectric bridge-type pickup for a stringed musical instrument having a top surface and a plurality of generally parallel strings spaced from one another and extending over said top surface, said pickup comprising:a plurality of sets of two discrete piezoelectric crystals, the number of said sets being equal to the number of said strings and each of the sets being intended to be associated with a respective one of the strings, each set being adapted to be located between said top surface of the instrument and the associated string with the two discrete piezoelectric crystals of the set at different closely spaced positions along the length of the string, anda plurality of discrete saddles equal in number to the number of said strings and each of which saddles is intended to be associated with a respective one of the strings, each saddle being adapted to be located between the string associated with the saddle and the set of two discrete piezoelectric crystals associated with the same string so that said associated string presses down on said saddle and said saddle in turn presses down on both of said two piezoelectric crystals.