Patent ID: 7276657

Claim:
A sound pickup switching system for an electric string instrument having at least two pickup coils thereon and a multi-position selector switch including in combination: a switch matrix having a plurality of selectively operated switches connected to the pickup coils to electrically interconnect the pickup coils in different predetermined combinations of series, parallel, in-phase, or out-of-phase; a relay driver coupled with the switch matrix to operate the switches; a table memory coupled with the relay driver to control the operation of the relay driver; user input controls coupled with the table memory for entering and storing groups of user selected switch combinations in the table memory; and a connection between the multi-position selector switch on the string instrument and the table memory for operating the relay driver to further operate predetermined combinations of switches in the switch matrix corresponding to the user selected switch combinations stored in the table memory for different positions of the selector switch on the electric string instrument.