Patent ID: 8344236

Claim:
A pickup for use with an electrical stringed musical instrument, comprising: a base; a plurality of magnets of a specified strength operably coupled to the base; a plurality of bobbins situated on the plurality of magnets, each bobbin associated with a single magnet and disposed under each adjacent pair of strings, the plurality of bobbins each having a single pole slug within its interior and each having a wire coiled in a specified number of turns; each pole slug comprising a pole face having a specified size and shape and a pole shaft, wherein the pole shaft is of a smaller diameter than the pole face, wherein the strength of each magnet, the specified number of turns, and the size and shape of each pole face is selected to provide an optimized frequency response for each pair of strings, and wherein one or more of the plurality of magnets is operable to induce a change in magnetic flux in the pole slug in response to vibrations of a string of the electrical stringed musical instrument.