Assertion: acoustic guitar's pickup | /r/HasProperty | transducer
Facets:
value: both
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
text: This is a similar idea in regard to how most microphones work, which is why pickups and mics are both called transducers.
text: A typical magnetic pickup is a transducer (specifically a variable reluctance sensor) that consists of one or more permanent magnets (usually alnico or ferrite) wrapped with a coil of several thousand turns of fine enameled copper wire.
text: Pickups are transducers attached to a guitar that detect (or "pick up") string vibrations and convert the mechanical energy of the string into electrical energy.