Patent ID: 8153871

Claim:
A device for mounting a sensor on a musical instrument for amplification, the device comprising: a first arm having a fixed end and a free end, where fixed end is fixed relative to at least a first string of a musical instrument, the musical instrument having at least the first string, the first string being stretched along a fingerboard and across a bridge; and a first sensor connected to the first arm, where the first arm is for placing the first sensor at a desired first distance measured normal to the first string, where the first arm is for placing the first sensor at a desired first position anywhere in a first range along the first string, where the first range is at least seventy percent of a least distance between termination of the fingerboard and the bridge, where the first distance can be changed by a user during normal playing, where the first position can be changed by the user during normal playing, where the first sensor stays at the first distance during normal playing unless changed by the user, where the first sensor stays at the first position during normal playing unless changed by the user.