Patent ID: 7015390

Claim:
A pickup unit for stringed instruments, comprising: a single removable pickup housing adapted to be mounted within a sound hole of a stringed instrument, the housing having a top surface facing strings on the instrument, a left side, a right side, a front end side and a rear end side, and a bottom surface, the top surface and the bottom surface having a vertical axis passing therethrough; three pickup sensors on the stringed instrument connected to the pickup housing; three rotatable tuning members knobs for each of the pickup sensors attached on the housing being easily adjustable by a user of the instrument, the three rotatable knobs located on at least one of the left side and right side of the pickup housing, the rotatable knobs having an axis of rotation perpendicular to the vertical axis passing through the top surface and the bottom surface; and a connector for connecting the pickup housing to an external amplifier, wherein the pickup unit is adapted when installed in the sound hole so that a user's fingers are reachable to the rotatable knobs while the user's fingers are on strings across the sound hole of the stringed instrument.