Patent ID: 8445770

Claim:
A programmable switch for configuring user selected combinations of pickup coils in user selected pickup topology configurations in electronic musical instruments, comprising: A) a passive, asynchronous, m-throw switch having m-switch settings; B) a passive, asynchronous, programmable switch-setting program; C) a superset of all possible program settings available in the single programmable switch, each setting of the programmable switch is programmable by any setting in the superset, the superset being every possible combination of pickups, in every possible topology; D) a user selected subset of the superset of pickup and topology switch settings; E) the programmable switch programmed with the user subset of pickup and topology switch settings; F) only the m-throw switch is manipulated while the electronic instrument is played; and G) after the electronic instrument is played, the programmable switch can be reprogrammed with a new subset of coils and pickup topologies from the superset of all possible program settings.