Patent ID: 8420924

Claim:
A pickup for a musical instrument comprising: a signal generator; a transducer; a mixer; so constructed and arranged that when power is supplied to the pickup a first signal and a second signal are respectively sent from the signal generator to the transducer and the mixer; a first field derived from the first signal is transmitted from the transducer towards a vibrating element of the musical instrument; a second field derived by re-radiation and Doppler shifted modulation of the first field is received from the vibrating element by the transducer; a third signal derived from the second field is sent from the transducer to the mixer; the third signal and the second signal are mixed by the mixer-to produce a fourth signal; and the fourth signal includes a difference signal being a musical frequency audio electrical signal of substantially same pitch, intonation and sustain as a sound vibration from the vibrating element of the musical instrument.